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Lineages of the feminine : an outline of a history of women / Emmanuel Todd with the collaboration of Baptiste Touverey ; translated from the French by Andrew Brown.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Todd, Emmanuel, 1951- author.
Touverey, Baptiste, author.
Contributor:
Brown, Andrew (Literary translator), translator.
Standardized Title:
Où en sont-elles? English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Women--History.
Women.
Women--Social conditions.
Man-woman relationships--History.
Man-woman relationships.
Male domination (Social structure)--History.
Male domination (Social structure).
Feminism--History.
Feminism.
MeToo movement.
Men.
Sex role.
Genre:
History
Physical Description:
xiv, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
[S.l.] : POLITY PRESS, 2023.
Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, [2023]
Summary:
"A leading anthropologist and historian places current controversies about sex and gender in the long history of the male/female relationship"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: The future is now
Part I. The contribution of historical anthropology
Patriarchy, gender and intersectionality
Degendering anthropology
The tools of historical anthropology
In search of the original family
The confinement of women: history comes to a halt
A detour by way of Australia
The sexual division of labour
Christianity, Protestantism, and women
Part II. Our revolution
Liberation: 1950-2020
Men resist but the collective collapses
Gender: a petty bourgeois ideology
Women and authority
The mystery of Sweden
Homophobia: a male business
Women, between Christianity and bisexuality
The social construction of transgender
Economic globalization and the deviation of anthropological trajectories
Conclusion: Has humanity come of age?
Notes:
"First published in French as Où en sont-elles? Une esquisse de l'histoire des femmes, Editions du Seuil, 2022"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781509555086
1509555080
OCLC:
1378022425
Publisher Number:
99994448096

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