About Bourdieu, habitus and male domination: three notes

Authors

  • Luisa Posada Kubissa Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Abstract

Opposite to naturalization, what he calls “deshistorization”, Pierre Bourdieu, from its “constructivist structuralism” or his”genetic constructivism”, examines how power is constitutive of the society and it exists in things and bodies, including itself in the same habitus that define subjectivity. Thus, his analysis opens the door to a critical reconsideration of the relations between the sexes and, precisely for this reason, it is of interest to a critical-feminist perspective, although we must take into account the scant attention Bourdieu gives to such perspective.

Keywords:

Deshistorization, habitus, simbolic violence, feminism, Bourdieu