Perempuan Dan Kekerasan Simbolik: Membongkar Simbol-Simbol Dominasi Maskulin Bersama Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

The awareness of oppression and injustice against women has given birth to many theories that explain how it can happen. One of the thinker who is also anxious about the issue of gender inequality is Pierre Bourdieu. Through his research in Qubail Algeria, this French scientist, discovered a mechanism that he termed symbolic violence. This mechanism makes the forms of gender inequality to be hidden because it works invisibly through the knowledge and schemes of people's awareness. In dismantling the dominant mechanisms that gave rise to gender inequality, he involves the concept of habitus to further understand the occurrence of symbolic violence against women in the sex division of labor system existing in the social order of Qubail Algeria society. In examining of the system of division of labor, Bourdieu focuses his study on the use and meaning of symbols that legitimize the division of labor on the basis of sex differences so that the division looks natural. The meaning of symbols of biological difference and the ritual system of Qubail society used by society as a tool of legitimacy to place women and men in different spaces.