Date 06 February 2020
Pages 336
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 21.00
EAN 9782348044380
Publisher Website www.editionsladecouverte.fr

Capital as Genus

How Families Reproduce Inequalities
Publisher La Découverte
COLLECTION L'envers des faits
GENRE Sociology
Keywords Feminism - Inequalities
Contrary to the usual image of the modern family as an emotional haven, this essay traces the resurgence of inheritance-based inequalities under 21st century capitalism.

Why do women accumulate fewer assets than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from becoming wealthy?
The answers to these questions lie in the legal intricacies of familial wealth. Such an approach implies breaking with the common conception of the family as an emotional haven of peace in a brutal capitalist world. In reality, the family should be seen as an economic institution unto itself: one that produces, circulates, controls, and evaluates assets. One whose true purpose is revealed during matters of inheritance or marital separation.