Lineages of the Feminine: An outline of the histor y of women Cloth

ISBN-13: 9781509555086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 330 str.

Emmanuel Todd

Recenzje

'Todd brings his immense learning to bear on current understandings of the position of women in different parts of the world, with a particular focus on contemporary feminist positions in the West. What is original in his analysis is the way he brings his longue durée anthropological approach to bear on cultural representations of gender. He integrates the analysis of family and kinship with the status of women over ten thousand years. He shows that the post-industrial revolution coincided with the emancipation of women and an elevation of their status, but with freedom and emancipation, women confront a world in disarray and develop new anxieties. It is hard to think of another scholar with Todd's range, command of detail and breadth of reading. This is an important book, one which will be studied and debated for years to come.'David Sabean, Distinguished Professor of European History and the Henry J. Bruman Chair in German History, Emeritus, at UCLA'Lineages of the Feminine is a tour de force of thinking outside the box, adroitly grounded in historical anthropology and demography. The author's deep knowledge of the history of family forms and relationships empowers him to open new debates about current social predicaments.'Kenneth Wachter, Emeritus Professor of Demography and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Spis treści

PrefaceIntroductionThe future is nowThe singularity of the original human coupleResearch versus ideologyThe power of women todayEconomics and anthropologyWomen's liberation, and the antagonism between (or abolition of) the sexesPart One. The contribution of historical anthropologyChapter OnePatriarchy, gender and intersectionalityThe fog of patriarchyThe emergence of the concept of genderGender: a useless and ideologized duplicationFor a generalized intersectionalityFrench intersectionalityChapter TwoDegendering anthropologyA tribute to female anthropologistsJulian Steward: sexual equality among hunter-gatherers described by a classical anthropologistMartin King Whyte: anthropology just before genderHenrietta Moore: The first disruptionsMarilyn G. Gelber: the monstrous manJanet Carsten: DecompositionAn insufficiently feminist historyChapter ThreeThe tools of historical anthropologyThe nuclear familyThe stem familyThe communitarian familyThe local group and marriageChapter FourIn search of the original familyClassical anthropology and the original familyThe block in anthropologyThe conservatism of peripheral zones: English, Americans, French, Shoshone, Bushmen, Eskimos, Chukchi and Agtas in one humanitySaving Private MurdockA new geography of the worldChapter FiveThe confinement of women: history comes to a haltNomads and the history of the familyPatrilineality and social stratificationThe patrilineal impasseChapter SixA detour by way of AustraliaThe debate on the AboriginesThe role of New GuineaChapter SevenThe sexual division of labourIdeology versus realityIdeology against itselfCollectivist men versus individualist womenThe issue of equality: we are not chimpanzeesChapter EightChristianity, Protestantism and womenEarly Christianity and womenThe Church and sexual securityProtestant patricentrismPart Two. Our revolutionChapter NineLiberation: 1950-20201950-1965: the height of petty-bourgeois conformismThe educational and sexual revolution: 1965-2000Women, services and industryEducational matridominance: 2000-2020From hypergamy to hypogamyDifferences according to social classPoverty and single-parent familiesThe middle classes in survival strategyWomen at the risk of anomieThe concept of soft anomieChapter TenMen resist but the collective collapsesThe persistent sexual division of labour, yet againThe sex of the stateThe medical professionMathematicsThe top 4%: a residual patridominanceEven higher: capital has no sexDivorce at the heart of the systemThe masculine collective and its disintegrationChapter ElevenGender: a petty bourgeois ideologyFrance in the face of the Anglo-American worldThe sex of social classesAnger as a general social phenomenonIdeological hegemony in the feminine: doctoratesMatridominance at the OECD as well as at the INEDFarewell to realityA provisional summaryChapter TwelveWomen and AuthorityWomen as less racistThe weakening of the collective, but not of authorityThe origin of Prohibition?Ideological anomaliesSwedish family typesThe riddle of authoritarian feminismNo paternal authority without maternal authorityThe mother at the centre of the familyConstructed authority and natural authorityChapter ThirteenThe mystery of SwedenAgainst the myth of an original matriarchyThe Sweden of the originsInterpreting the runic stelesPeasant patrilocality from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuryThe birth of the 'Swedish woman': literacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesSweden and DenmarkChapter FourteenHomophobia: a male businessOrders of magnitude and causal sequencesLGBT: a tactical allianceWords before thingsHomosexuality, a natural human behaviourMapping homophobia: the BBO axis yet againHomophobia: a male businessChapter FifteenWomen, between Christianity and bisexualitySimple Protestant homophobia and Catholic ambivalenceThe collapse of religious sentiment and homophobiaAre gays zombie Christians?The objection of Eastern EuropeMarriage for all men and all womenThe rise of female bisexualityChapter SixteenThe social construction of transgenderThe case of the berdachesBerdaches and transgender people'My new vagina won't make me happy'Ideological centrality...... but statistical weaknessWomen and identityThe omnipotence of mothersDoes society think through individuals?The Christian taste for extraordinary sexualityChapter SeventeenEconomic globalization and the deviation from anthropological trajectoriesGlobalization and the tertiarization of the economyEconomic or anthropological specialization?The worker nations of Eastern EuropeSweden, yet again...The cost of rejecting liberationConclusionHas humanity come of age?NotesIndex

O autorze

Emmanuel Todd is a sociologist, demographer and historical anthropologist at the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), Paris.