In "Masculine Domination", Pierre Bourdieu uses ethnographic analysis as a tool to shed light on the structures of masculine domination, which precisely because it is so deeply rooted in our subconscious and so in line with our expectations, ultimately goes unnoticed and is never questioned.

Through the study of the society of the Kabyles, the influential French sociologist explores the symbolic structures of the Mediterranean male-centered unconscious and the way in which it survives in both men and women today. Masculine domination is thus presented as an exemplary form of symbolic violence, a violence that is often mild, invisible, and exercised even with the involuntary consent of the dominated. It investigates the institutions, Family, Church, School, State, that contribute to the reproduction of these structures and the perpetuation of arbitrariness, in order to arrive at the political question: how can the mechanisms that delay the natural course of history be neutralized?

"Masculine Domination", which has sparked many reactions from feminists, is a book that remains relevant by raising crucial questions about gender, sexual identity, and power.