Françoise Héritier & Pierre Bourdieu: The Hierarchical Construction of the Male/Female Difference

Authors

  • Debora Breder Universidade Federal Fluminense

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v19i19p35-45

Keywords:

Body, Sex, Gender, Françoise Héritier, Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

In the late 1990s Françoise Héritier
and Pierre Bourdieu published, with an interval of
only two years between them, Masculin/Feminin,
la pensée de la différence (1996), and La domination
masculine (1998), respectively. Dealing with the
hierarchical construction of the difference between
male and female, both books present a perspecti-
ve that is, if not skeptical, at least little optimistic
concerning the discourses that announce possible
displacements or even the erasure of “difference”.
Instead of pointing out the significant distance be-
tween these authors in dealing with the issue, this
article proposes a reflection on the topics in which
their perspectives converge.

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Author Biography

  • Debora Breder, Universidade Federal Fluminense

    Doutora em Antropologia Social / UFF

    Professora da Universidade Cândido Mendes

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Published

2010-03-30

Issue

Vol. 19 No. 19 (2010)

Section

Articles and Essays

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How to Cite

Breder, D. (2010). Françoise Héritier & Pierre Bourdieu: The Hierarchical Construction of the Male/Female Difference. Cadernos De Campo (São Paulo, 1991), 19(19), 35-45. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v19i19p35-45