En the West, a revolution is at work: girls are the best at school, women are in the majority in certain sectors and they are masters of their bodies. It is this revolution that the anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, known for his work on family systems, dissects in a masterful work, where he sifts through the roots of the rise of women, their current situation, sometimes dominant, and the new contradictions arising from it.
In Where are they? A Sketch of Women’s History (Seuil), it describes the contribution of the emancipation of women for themselves as well as for society as a whole, from the rise of the tertiary sector to the detriment of industry to the decline of homophobia, through the rise of individualism. How…
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