The Gender of Capital : : How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality /

The Gender of Capital : : How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality / / Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac.

Two leading social scientists examine the gender wealth gap in countries with officially egalitarian property law, showing how legal professionals—wittingly and unwittingly—help rich families and men maintain their privilege.In many countries, property law grants equal rights to men and women. Why,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2023 English
VerfasserIn:
Bessière, Céline,
Gollac, Sibylle,
MitwirkendeR:
Rogers, Juliette,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the English Edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Family as an Economic Institution
  • 2. Family Reproduction versus Women’s Wealth
  • 3. Acquit the Strong and Condemn the Weak
  • 4. Sexist Accounting under Cover of Egalitarian Law
  • 5. Tax Avoidance and Family Peace at the Expense of Women
  • 6. Can the Courts Make Up for Wealth Inequality?
  • 7. The Particular Hardships of Proletarian Ex-Wives
  • Conclusion
  • Statistical Appendixes
  • Ethnographic and Archival Sources
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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