La Domination | Masculine

In his seminal work La Domination masculine (1998), French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu explores the deep-rooted social structures that perpetuate gender inequality. He argues that male dominance is not a biological inevitability but a social construction that has been "naturalized" over millennia. 💡 Key Conceptual Frameworks

: Gender is a "sexually characterized habitus"—a set of deeply embedded dispositions in the body (somatization) that dictate how individuals walk, look, and act. La Domination masculine

: This is the central mechanism of domination. It is a "gentle," invisible form of power exerted through communication and cognition, where the dominated unwittingly accept their own subordination as "natural". In his seminal work La Domination masculine (1998),

Bourdieu uses his core sociological toolkit to explain how gender power dynamics operate: La Domination masculine