Vive La (Sexual) Révolution
The Political Roots of Bourdieu's Analysis of Gender
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3444672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Yair (0000-0003-3376-1132, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 388-407 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.2008.00796.x |
| OpenAlex | W1578012914 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 36 |
This paper argues that the French Revolution constituted the basic metaphor through which Pierre Bourdieu perceived and analyzed gender hierarchies; that the class structure of the ancien régime and the mechanisms of its legitimation were the major metaphors he used through his scathing critiques on the order of the sexes; and that the ideals of liberté, égalité and fraternité were always his reformatory aims for a just, gender-neutral society. The paper shows how this preoccupation with the Revolution of 1789 structured Bourdieu's analysis of gender relations and sexual identities in contemporary society. It exposes the ways in which he identified men with the nobility and women with the third estate; it presents his analyses of the role that traditional ideologies and state bureaucracies play in legitimating this arbitrary order of masculine domination; and it analyzes his proposals for a sexual revolution while exposing the counter-revolutionary forces that persistently negate attempts to reform gender hierarchies. Fundamentally, this new reading of Bourdieu's exegeses on gender suggests that he was working with a ready-made interpretive scheme, a model of society that he was inclined to see as always reproducing itself: the ancien régime
Ancien regime · Gender analysis · Gender relations · Ideology · Legitimation · Metaphor · Order (exchange) · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |