num_pages: 144
description: Male domination is so anchored in our unconscious that we hardly perceive it any more; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic description of Kabyle society, a veritable reservoir of the Mediterranean unconscious, provides a powerful instrument to dissolve taken-for-granted truths and explore the symbolic structures of this androcentric unconscious which survives in today's men and women. But the discovery of permanences obliges us to overturn the habitual manner in which we frame the problem. How does the historical work of dehistoricization operate What are the mechanisms and the institutions - family, church, school or state - which accomplish the work of reproduction Is it possible to neutralize them in order to liberate the forces of change which they succeed in fettering
language: English
title: Masculine Domination
titlecomplete: Masculine Domination
genres: France, Philosophy, Womens, Gender, Nonfiction, Psychology, Feminism, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology
ratings_count: 1962
publisher: Polity Press