An edition of Modern marriage and its cost to women (1996)
Modern marriage and its cost to women
a sociological look at marriage in France
By François de Singly
Publish Date
1996
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Language
eng
Pages
246
Description:
Modern Marriage and Its Cost to Women examines the price women have to pay for marriage, socially and culturally. Its basic premise reunites feminist theory and the work of Pierre Bourdieu, and it is supported by data from the numerous quantitative and qualitative studies that have been carried out in France. Rejecting a separation of family studies and gender studies, Francois de Singly offers a systematic framework to explain how the manner in which the contemporary family functions penalizes women by preventing them from defending properly their social interests and their academic capital.