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The Gender of Capital

How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality

Céline Bessière

Sibylle Gollac

Translated by Juliette Rogers

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HARDCOVER

$39.95 • £34.95 • €36.95

ISBN 9780674271791

Publication Date: 03/07/2023

344 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

1 illus., 17 tables

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Céline Bessière is Professor of Sociology at Paris-Dauphine University.

Sibylle Gollac is a research fellow in Sociology at the National Center for Scientific Research in France.

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