https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/A-critique-of-the-ideology-of-property https://booksandideas.net/A-critique-of-the-ideology-of-property 2025-12-04T08:00:00Z text/html en Yann Robert Philosophy freedom property ideology oppression Cairn.info <p>Why do we believe that our<i> </i>societies are freer, more prosperous or more democratic <i>thanks to</i> the institution of private property rather than <i>in spite of</i> it?</p> https://booksandideas.net/Discrimination-as-a-test https://booksandideas.net/Discrimination-as-a-test 2025-09-09T12:20:16Z text/html en Frédérique Jean Society phenomenology resistance racism sexism oppression Cairn.info <p>Mickaëlle Provost seeks to understand oppression through lived experience, in all its uniqueness. She also shows how shared awareness of this suffering and the ways in which it is erased can create solidarity and pave the way for collective resistance.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ireland-s-Silences-the-Magdalene-Laundries https://booksandideas.net/Ireland-s-Silences-the-Magdalene-Laundries 2018-12-24T07:00:00Z text/html en Nathalie Sebbane Society History women <span lang='FR'>Eglise</span> Ireland oppression <p>Thanks to the success of Peter Mullan's film The Magdalene Sisters, Magdalene laundries—institutions meant to punish Ireland's “fallen” women—are now part of the country's collective memory. Despite tremendous social advances, survivors still await reparation and an official apology.</p>