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/Love-as-a-rebellious-discourse https://booksandideas.net/Love-as-a-rebellious-discourse 2025-11-27T07:30:00Z text/html en Christophe Giraud Society gender youth affectivity sexuality love Cairn.info <p>Based on a collective survey, Christine Détrez intends to deconstruct the term ‘crush' and explores the social meanings underlying the many ways young people aged between 12 and 25 form relationships and learn about love.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-social-odyssey-of-trans https://booksandideas.net/The-social-odyssey-of-trans 2023-09-19T10:48:12Z text/html en Céline Bessière Society gender trans Cairn.info <p>The interpretive framework applied to the transitioning of trans people by sociologist Emmanuel Beaubatie produces a wealth of knowledge. Male domination and heteronormativity are shown in a new light.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Multiplicity-of-Gender https://booksandideas.net/The-Multiplicity-of-Gender 2021-10-13T07:30:00Z text/html en Emmanuel Beaubatie Society gender sexuality <p>The multiplicity of possible gender positions cannot be reduced to a spectrum opposing male and female. Numerous conceptions of gender confront one another in a multi-dimensional space, each of them proposing a different alternative to male and heterosexual norms.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Women-work-Men-accumulate https://booksandideas.net/Women-work-Men-accumulate 2021-09-08T08:00:00Z text/html en Christian Baudelot Society capitalism gender women heritage <p>Through an ethnographic investigation allowing them to go behind the scenes of notaries public's offices and law firms, two sociologists show the origins of profound gender inequalities in the distribution of family assets.</p> https://booksandideas.net/A-French-Touch-in-the-Sociology-of-Wealth https://booksandideas.net/A-French-Touch-in-the-Sociology-of-Wealth 2021-03-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society gender economic sociology sociology agriculture wealth Books and ideas originals sociology of work <p>A French qualitative strand of research opens new paths to understanding wealth accumulation in the post-Piketty era and renews our vision of elite groups and beyond.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Gender-and-Politics https://booksandideas.net/Gender-and-Politics 2020-08-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Editorial Team Society gender feminism equality care gender studies <p><i>Books & Ideas</i> is slowing down for the summer and will be offering weekly selections of reviews and essays published over the last year. This week's selection questions the relationship between gender and politics.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Against-the-Grain-of-the-Voice https://booksandideas.net/Against-the-Grain-of-the-Voice 2020-07-06T07:00:00Z text/html en Catherine Rudent Arts gender music race cultural studies popular culture Books and ideas originals electronic music metal music <p>From crooning to auto-tune, the voice is at the heart of popular songs. However, it has proved difficult to study: how can something as personal be analysed? Catherine Rudent provides an overview of current approaches of the voice in popular music studies.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Beyond-Backlash https://booksandideas.net/Beyond-Backlash 2020-05-21T07:00:00Z text/html en Priscila Delgado de Carvalho Society United States of America democracy inequalities populism gender Columbia Brazil women human rights social rights gender studies patriarchy Books and ideas originals <p>Gender not only reached an unprecedented level of exposure in public debates but has become a structuring element of contemporary conservative discourses. This text discusses how gender can be incorporated into assessments of the current crisis of democracies</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Myth-of-the-Wrong-Body https://booksandideas.net/The-Myth-of-the-Wrong-Body 2019-04-15T06:00:00Z text/html en Olga L. Gonzalez Society gender sociology trans <p>Challenging the essentialist conception of transgendered people as “born in the wrong body,” Miquel Missé proposes a sociology of the body that emphasizes the burden of social norms.</p> https://booksandideas.net/An-Anti-Gender-Europe https://booksandideas.net/An-Anti-Gender-Europe 2018-09-24T07:00:00Z text/html en Magali Della Sudda Society International gender Europe <span lang='FR'>Eglise</span> catholicism homosexuality Florence Gould Foundation far-right politics <p>This panorama of the mobilizations against homosexual marriage in twelve European countries highlights the federation of several conservative movements under the unifying ‘Anti-Gender Crusade' banner.</p>