Cover: The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality, from Harvard University Press

Cover: The Gender of Capital in HARDCOVER

The Gender of Capital

How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality

Céline Bessière

Sibylle Gollac

Translated by Juliette Rogers

Product Details

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

World

Media Requests: [Email Address]

Related Subjects

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.

Related Links

At ProMarket, read an excerpt from The Gender of Capital on how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still perpetuate gender wealth inequalities

Buy Elsewhere

About HUP eBooks Find at a Library »

Common Reads: First-Year Experience [picture of open book]

Recent News

On the Vox podcast The Gray Area, In Praise of Failure author Costica Bradatan made the case that fixation with success is hindering our ability, as a society, to grapple with big philosophical questions.
Elizabeth Cobbs, author of Fearless Women, spoke with the San Diego Union-Tribune about the necessity of accounting for the history of feminism when considering the values that unite us as a people.
ProMarket featured an excerpt from Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac’s The Gender of Capital on how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still perpetuate gender wealth inequalities.

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Photograph of the book Fearless Women against red/white striped background

A Conversation with Elizabeth Cobbs about Fearless Women

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the work of Elizabeth Cobbs, whose new book Fearless Women shows how the movement for women’s rights has been deeply entwined with the history of the United States since its founding. Cobbs traces the lives of pathbreaking women who, inspired by American ideals, fought for the cause in their own ways…

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library I Tatti Renaissance Library logo (bee)

I Tatti Renaissance Library

Loeb Classical Library

Murty Classical Library of India

About & Contact | Awards | Catalogs | Conference Exhibits | eBooks | Exam Copies | News | Order | Rights | Permissions | Search | Shopping Cart | Subjects & Series

Resources for: Authors | Booksellers & Librarians | Educators | Journalists | Readers

Harvard University Press offices are located at 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & 8 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL UK

© 2023 President and Fellows of Harvard College | HUP Privacy Policy • HU Additional EEA Privacy Disclosures