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Current affairs Thursdays: the family, another cradle of inequalities?

Culture · Thursday, December 17 · 19:00 · Paris

Bibliothèque Václav Havel, 26 esplanade Nathalie Sarraute

Free

A discussion with sociologists Sybille Gollac and Denis Colombi (tentative) on questions of social and gender inequalities. Questions of heritage and wealth transmission are regularly at the heart of political debates and studied from the perspective of class relations, but much less from a gender lens. In their book Le genre du capital: comment la famille reproduit les inégalités, Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac investigated the calculations, shares and conflicts that occur at the time of marital separations and inheritances, with the assistance of pro…