Emmanuel Todd

Lineages of the Feminine (eBook, ePUB)

An Outline of the History of Women
Übersetzer: Brown, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men and women, at the very moment when progress is accelerating and when the goals of first- and second-wave feminism seem on the verge of being achieved?

In this book, the anthropologist and historian Emmanuel Todd, while not underestimating the importance of crucial inequalities that remain, argues that the emancipation of women has essentially already taken place but that it has given rise to new tensions and contradictions. As women gain more freedom, they also gain access to traditional male social pathologies: economic anxiety, the disorientation of anomie, and individual and class resentment. But because they remain women, with the ability to bear children, their burden as human beings, although richer, is now more difficult to bear than that of men.

In order to understand our current condition, Todd retraces the evolution of the male/female relationship through the long history of the human species, from the emergence of Homo sapiens a hundred thousand years ago to the present. He also conducts a broad empirical study of the convergence between men and women today and of the differences that still separate them - in education, in employment and in relation to longevity, suicide and homicide, electoral behaviour and racism. He explores the relations between women's liberation and other changes in contemporary societies such as the collapse of religion, the decline of industry, the decline of homophobia, the rise of bisexuality and the transgender phenomenon, and the decline in a sense of the collective life. And he shows how and why Western countries - and especially the Anglo-American world, Scandinavia and France - are, in their new feminist revolution, perhaps less universal than they think.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509555109
• Artikelnr.: 68274226

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface

Introduction

The future is now

The singularity of the original human couple

Research versus ideology

The power of women today

Economics and anthropology

Women's liberation, and the antagonism between (or abolition of) the sexes

Part One. The contribution of historical anthropology

Chapter One

Patriarchy, gender and intersectionality

The fog of patriarchy

The emergence of the concept of gender

Gender: a useless and ideologized duplication

For a generalized intersectionality

French intersectionality

Chapter Two

Degendering anthropology

A tribute to female anthropologists

Julian Steward: sexual equality among hunter-gatherers described by a classical anthropologist

Martin King Whyte: anthropology just before gender

Henrietta Moore: The first disruptions

Marilyn G. Gelber: the monstrous man

Janet Carsten: Decomposition

An insufficiently feminist history

Chapter Three

The tools of historical anthropology

The nuclear family

The stem family

The communitarian family

The local group and marriage

Chapter Four

In search of the original family

Classical anthropology and the original family

The block in anthropology

The conservatism of peripheral zones: English, Americans, French, Shoshone, Bushmen, Eskimos, Chukchi and Agtas in one humanity

Saving Private Murdock

A new geography of the world

Chapter Five

The confinement of women: history comes to a halt

Nomads and the history of the family

Patrilineality and social stratification

The patrilineal impasse

Chapter Six

A detour by way of Australia

The debate on the Aborigines

The role of New Guinea

Chapter Seven

The sexual division of labour

Ideology versus reality

Ideology against itself

Collectivist men versus individualist women

The issue of equality: we are not chimpanzees

Chapter Eight

Christianity, Protestantism and women

Early Christianity and women

The Church and sexual security

Protestant patricentrism

Part Two. Our revolution

Chapter Nine

Liberation: 1950-2020

1950-1965: the height of petty-bourgeois conformism

The educational and sexual revolution: 1965-2000

Women, services and industry

Educational matridominance: 2000-2020

From hypergamy to hypogamy

Differences according to social class

Poverty and single-parent families

The middle classes in survival strategy

Women at the risk of anomie

The concept of soft anomie

Chapter Ten

Men resist but the collective collapses

The persistent sexual division of labour, yet again

The sex of the state

The medical profession

Mathematics

The top 4%: a residual patridominance

Even higher: capital has no sex

Divorce at the heart of the system

The masculine collective and its disintegration

Chapter Eleven

Gender: a petty bourgeois ideology

France in the face of the Anglo-American world

The sex of social classes

Anger as a general social phenomenon

Ideological hegemony in the feminine: doctorates
Matridominance at the OECD as well as at the INE

Rezensionen

'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