Masculine Domination; Gender And Power In Bourdieu’s Writings  

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Mottier, Veronique

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 3 no. 3 (Dec. 2002), page 345–359.
Topik: Gender And Power In Bourdieu’s Writings
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It would be a mistake to read Masculine Domination in isolation from the rest of Bourdieu’s work. His writings cover numerous widely diverging themes including ethnographies of Berber highland peasants in Kabylia(Algeria), analyses of the education system, Heidegger, the world of academics, television, poverty, taste and language. But, as Wacquant (1993) points out, English-language reception of his writings has been marred by fragmented readings of these works (partly due to initially slow translations), which has led to a number of misunderstandings. To avoid such misinterpretation, it is important to recognize that Bourdieu’s various writings are all part of a unifying central project: the analysis of power and domination and their social reproduction in modern societies. Bourdieu’s analysis of masculine domination is anchored in his theory of action, which needs to be located in this specific intellectual context and which also has political implications. Any assessment of Bourdieu’s ideas on gender needs to take into consideration both their place in his general theoretical framework (all the more so since that framework is mostly left implicit in Masculine Domination) and the specific intellectual and political background against which they have been formulated.

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