ABSTRACT
In an article dealing with male dominance, Pierre Bourdieu describes the principle and how this dominance functions as follows: "Male dominance is sufficiently secured that it needs no justification" (Bourdieu, 1990, p. 5). There are practices and discourses that make dominance a taken-for-granted fact and by this reproduce it. Just as in every system of power and subordination, of domination and inferiority, the gender order works (or worked) "smoothly" so long as the status of the ruling class is taken for granted: a matter of course not only for men, but also for women, and strongly founded on cultural interpretive patterns and inscribed into the routines of everyday life.
