Le genre du capital. Comment la famille reproduit les inégalités

Sibylle Gollac () and Céline Bessière
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Sibylle Gollac: CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CRESPPA - Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Cresppa-CSU - Cultures et sociétés urbaines - CRESPPA - Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Céline Bessière: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, IRISSO - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: This work approaches the institution of family from a materialistic point of view breaking with the dominant theory of a modern relationship-based family, free of financial stakes. It takes seriously the observation of economists, in the wake of Thomas Piketty, that there is a return to property inequality, based on the legacy of capitalism in the twenty-first century.Why do women accumulate fewer assets than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy?To answer these questions, one has to explore family wealth arrangements. This implies breaking with the common understanding of the family as an emotional haven of peace in a capitalist world inhabited by brutes. In reality, the family should be designed as a unit that produces, circulates, controls and evaluates assets. The sense of this economic institution is revealed, in particular, when there is a question of inheritance or marital separation.

Keywords: femme; succession; relation homme ...; discrimination ...; genre; patrimoine; inégalités; famille; héritage; séparations conjugales; femmes; discriminations sexuelles; successions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-02-06
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Published in La découverte, 336 p., 2020, L'envers des faits, 9782348075803

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