ABSTRACT
The self and its bundle of temporal dispositions is usefully conceptualised as a gendered habitus which term also provides a sociological framework through which to understand the strong influence of early experience in moulding it, leading to a large degree of intransigence to change in terms of social habits and the psychic economy. Indeed there are ways in which male dominance has become more extreme in recent years, such as through the practices of sexualisation that have proliferated in the media and the spreading of pornographic norms to the mainstream which have resulted in an increase in female sexual objectification on a wide scale. Overlaying this archaic, yet still vital, sex/gender system is a western philosophical system that perpetuates this hierarchical order, with women associated with matter and unreason and denied full attributes of personhood and selfhood. But the ideology of time also contributes to gendered inequality.
