Research on issues concerning relations between the genders is now quite dynamic and institutionalized, in France as elsewhere. A recent body of work has addressed social relationships of domination, as individuals experience them in daily life and as sociologists have been able to objectively observe them, as well as activist postures created in connection to these relationships. But no systematic study has focused directly on comprehending how people as individuals (rather than as participants in an activist movement) may seize upon gendered analytical categories and gender stereotypes in their daily lives (private, professional, political, or other spheres) to analyze an experience, decode behaviors, justify a personal attitude, or implement a strategy. Yet, many women and men use the discourse of gender and masculine and feminine “identities” to interpret their daily lives and/or act in their professional lives (in the media, politics, medical or legal fields, etc.), with no connection to organized activism.Likewise, the positive or negative ways in which people talk about women or men are as many ordinary appropriations of gender, and as many gender struggles, whether it be expressed in ordinary discourse – that is, rooted in everyday social relations rather than explicit activism – on the excesses and perverse effects of feminism, or even in a denial of gender as a relevant analytical category. This international interdisciplinary conference aims to explore how these discourses implicitly or explicitly concern the modes of domination that typify these diverse social spaces, and that they are all ways of protesting or justifying their configuration or development.