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This article examines Marge Piercy’s Small Changes in terms of Bourdieu’s symbolic violence and consciousness-raising of 70s’ feminists. Symbolic violence builds on the binary logic and ultimately connects a more fundamental polarity: the dominant/dominated paired opposition. The vertical classification of male/female becomes internalized into the cognitive structure of women, who, in turn, reproduce male domination. Consciousness-raising begins with the unmasking of symbolic violence that legitimize and hide male domination. Small Changes is an attempt to produce in fiction an equivalent of a full experience in a consciousness-raising group. Piercy takes pains with her story to show us how feminity is socially constructed: how gender socialization is the process through which women internalize male domination. While traditional novel shows life patterns resolved by marriage, this novel subverts these patterns.
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Marge Piercy, Small Changesmale domination
