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The gender of capital : how families perpetuate wealth inequality / CéÌine Bessière, Sibylle Gollac ; translated by Juliette Rogers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xiv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674271791
Uniform titles:
  • Genre du capital. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330 BES (TB) 23/eng/20221122
LOC classification:
  • HQ1237.5.F8 B4813 2023
Other classification:
Contents:
The Family as an Economic Institution -- Family Reproduction Versus Women's Wealth -- Acquit the Strong and Condemn the Weak -- Sexist Accounting under Cover of Egalitarian Law -- Tax Avoidance and Family Peace, at the Expense of -- Women -- Can the Courts Make Up for Wealth Inequality? -- The Particular Hardships of Proletarian Ex-Wives.
Summary: "Why do women accumulate less wealth than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy? This groundbreaking work approaches the institution of family from a materialist point of view, breaking with the dominant theory of modern, economically disinterested family relations. It takes seriously the economists, in the wake of Thomas Piketty, who observe a return to property inequality, based on the legacy of capitalism in the twenty-first century. It reconsiders the effectivity of legal changes that profess formal equality between men and women while condoning inequality in practice"-- Provided by publisher.Translation of:: Bessière, Céline., Genre du capital., Paris : La Découverte, [2019]
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First published in French as Le genre du capital: comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-309) and index.

The Family as an Economic Institution -- Family Reproduction Versus Women's Wealth -- Acquit the Strong and Condemn the Weak -- Sexist Accounting under Cover of Egalitarian Law -- Tax Avoidance and Family Peace, at the Expense of -- Women -- Can the Courts Make Up for Wealth Inequality? -- The Particular Hardships of Proletarian Ex-Wives.

"Why do women accumulate less wealth than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy? This groundbreaking work approaches the institution of family from a materialist point of view, breaking with the dominant theory of modern, economically disinterested family relations. It takes seriously the economists, in the wake of Thomas Piketty, who observe a return to property inequality, based on the legacy of capitalism in the twenty-first century. It reconsiders the effectivity of legal changes that profess formal equality between men and women while condoning inequality in practice"-- Provided by publisher.

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