Masculine Domination 1st Edition

by Pierre Bourdieu (Author), Richard Nice (Translator)

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Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of Kabyle society provides instruments to help us understand the most concealed aspects of the relations between the sexes in our own societies, and to break the bonds of deceptive familiarity that tie us to our own tradition. Bourdieu analyzes masculine domination as a prime example of symbolic violence―the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence exercised through the everyday practices of social life. To understand this form of domination we must also analyze the social mechanisms and institutions―family, school, church, and state―that transform history into nature and eternalize the arbitrary. Only in this way can we open up the possibilities for a kind of political action that can put history in motion again by neutralizing the mechanisms that have naturalized and dehistoricized the relations between the sexes. This new book by Pierre Bourdieu―which has been a bestseller in France―will be essential reading for anyone concerned with questions of gender and sexuality and with the structures that shape our social, political, and personal lives.

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" . . . [The] value of the book lies very much in the broad sweep with which it tries to recast our understanding of masculine domination. . . . [It] opens up the field for an investigation of the gender order as an ongoing social project of both men and women. . . . Bourdieu's greatest contribution to the study of gender is not so much in the questions that he has answered, but rather in the questions he is allowing us to pose." (Contemporary Sociology)

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Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it is so much in line with our expectations that we find it difficult to call into question. Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of Kabyle society provides instruments to help us understand the most concealed aspects of the relations between the sexes in our own societies, and to break the bonds of deceptive familiarity that tie us to our own tradition.
Bourdieu analyzes masculine domination as a prime example of symbolic violence—the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence exercised through the everyday practices of social life. To understand this form of domination we must also analyze the social mechanisms and institutions—family, school, church, and state—that transform history into nature and eternalize the arbitrary. Only in this way can we open up the possibilities for a kind of political action that can put history in motion again by neutralizing the mechanisms that have naturalized and dehistoricized the relations between the sexes.
This new book by Pierre Bourdieu—which has been a bestseller in France—will be essential reading for anyone concerned with questions of gender and sexuality and with the structures that shape our social, political, and personal lives.

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Paperback: 151 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804738203
ISBN-13: 978-0804738200
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Was My Face Red

June 1, 2010

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A local fraternal organization was presenting Anthony Bourdain in person speaking about his career and showing clips of his shows, to benefit charity. I got a premium ticket, being such a fan of Bourdain and the original TV series of Kitchen Confidential. After the presentation he was to do a signing, so I thought I'd surprise my partner with a signed copy of Bourdain's latest book, which I ordered ahead of time (from Amazon of course). It sounded like vintage Bourdain, Masculine Domination. Some of the funniest moments in KC the series was when Bradley Cooper wouldn't let any female chefs on the "line" as they call it, whereas even the worst male chef he'd give the nod to. This drove the restaurant manager (female) crazy and eventually Bradley Cooper gave in a little, rolling his eyes and heaving great sighs.

The lecture and clips were first rate, but I made a fool of myself when, after waiting on line a good 15 minutes, I asked the famous TV chef to autograph Masculine Domination! He looked at it in disgust, curling his lip and letting loose with some salty language, and his handlers whispered, this is not by Bourdain, it is by Pierre Bourdieu. Were there two of them? I asked, but then they escorted me back to my table where I and some of the other attendees discussed the situation. Was my face red! He wouldn't stop grimacing at me, even in the midst of chatting up the remaining people standing on line with their proper books. The man has written more than his share of books, but it appears that this is not among them.

That said, even though Masculine Domination fails the grade as a Bourdain book about bad kitchens, it's not a bad read. Bourdieu has this concept of "symbolic violence," basically saying that the forces of power no longer need to exert actual violence on the little people to keep the status quo of capitalism going; things have reaches a perfect melting point of image and reality, so that now mere "symbolic violence" is frightening enough. In particular, women, who are "subjected to a labour of socialization which tends to diminish and deny them," so that they reach instinctively for the positions men want them to take, namely, "self-denial, resignation and silence." Bourdieu sees this syndrome as a total one, in operation everywhere around the world, in all nations, rich and poor. Historically speaking, masculine domination has been but one way, argues Bourdieu, to propagate what he refers to as "the masculine vision," and the chief agents have been the family (far and away the leader in ideology), the church, and the educational system. Paradoxically as bourgeois women leave the workforce, they become mainstays of the church, so that from Victorian times onward, to all practical purposes, men have ceded membership in the church to the women otherwise disenfranchised from agency. But men "continue to dominate" both the public sphere and the field of power (particularly "economic power, over production." You can see how reading Bourdieu and Bourdain is but either side of the same coin, and how the hyperselection of women occurs even in the kitchens of the chic-est restaurants in New York, Paris and London, and the bistros surrounding them like barnacles at the bottom of a submarine. So, I was wrong, but I was right at the same time.

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William S Jamison

Readiocity in eye of interpreter not interpretant

November 8, 2007

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Despite the interesting nature of the book, much of the power of the book is lost in translation. English is not French and the sexism blatantly apparent in French is nuetered by the nature of English. Even so, considering a book unreadable is more a critique of the reader than the book even if the reader states their true opinion of the book. That's pretty obvious isn't it? One fun thing with this book is the frequency PB's comments are a reflection on the language he is using and since the English has different characteristics than the French the points miss their mark. But this brings up the question, has feminism been more successful in English speaking countries precisely because English uses neuter for most nouns? If PB is right about French, then what does that say about English? German? Spanish? Reading this book makes more sense when you are familiar with the French or can at least realize in French the self-referential nature of many of the points make sense while simply being baffling in English.

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April 4, 2013

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Bourdieu is (was RIP 2002) one of the greatest and truly original thinkers of the second half of the 20 th. century. As sociology and philosophy come to intermingle in French academia, for some reason he preferred the more modest appelation of "sociologist", famously calling it a "combat sport."
This short essay is based amongst others on direct field-work experiences by Bourdieu of time spent in Algeria where he once taught,among the Kabyles (ethnic non-Arab population) with whom he became acquainted.
Different cultures indeed, transposed into symbolic codes of our own.
"Symbolic [a.k.a. tacit, accepted, unspoken] violence."
Naturally some may be lost in translation, but more is lost on those terrified by words such as habitus, anamnenis (of hidden constants), dehistoricization, and so it goes.

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February 12, 2007

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Bourdieu's structuralist analyses of gender in Kabyle culture and personal reflections on gender in the modern Western world are consistently cogent, thoughtful, and well-presented. A number of other reviewers have called this book "unreadable." It is certainly full of Bourdieu's characteristic jargon, but I would like to note that this jargon is systematically developed throughout all of Bourdieu's work; learning to read it is not unlike learning a language. I therefore would not recommend this text to someone unfamiliar with Bourdieu. First read Distinction, his foundational work on cultural capital, and perhaps Wacquant's introduction to Invitation to a Reflexive Sociology. Take some time. Define and redefine his terminology for yourself. This book, along with his others, will become more readable and, of course, more rewarding.

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October 30, 2008

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I was pleased with the price and condition of the item. I read it for a class for school. It was difficult to understand until the professor discussed it with the class. Really good and valuable book for anyone to read.

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Laurent Oget

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December 3, 2002

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bourdieu applies his theoretical toolkit to one more field, and, as the hateful reactions of other reviewers testify, it hurts. this is indeed not talk radio and you will need to gather some philosophical/sociological resources to follow bourdieu, but it is completely worth it. in a small book, the foundations are laid of a systematic exploration of gender as a locus of symbolic domination.
here is to hoping bourdieu's numerous students will build on these foundations.

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Kim Jackson

Great analysis of the way things are

Bourdieu presents a wonderful analysis of the way our culture is currently shaped in terms of gender roles.Read more

Published on February 8, 2006

The Old Philosopher

Misandry, Ignrorance and Heterophobia

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What on earth does 'anamnesis' or 'sociodicy' mean?

Someone needs to point out that the emperor has no clothes: Regardless of how respected Bourdieu might be in academic circles, this book is an utterly unreadable waste of trees.Read more

Published on April 24, 2002

Stephen O. Murray

Convoluted prose recycling old and still undeveloped ideas

This short and nearly unreadable book mostly repeats what Collège de France sociologist Pierre Bourdieu proclaimed about symbolic violence and habituated dispositions to...Read more

Published on October 26, 2001

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