From the latest book by Roland Pfefferkorn, "Gender and gender relations", we propose a
way to read and understand the multiple dimensions of persistent inequalities between men
and women. ---- In "Gender and gender relations," Roland Pfefferkorn is an introduction to
the concepts used to address social inequalities men / women. In particular, his approach
emphasizes the contribution from the work of materialist feminism. This leads him to
highlight the ambiguities of the notion of gender and to show the theoretical advantages
of the analysis in terms of gender relations. In the introduction, the author puts into
perspective the history of sociology in recalling that it was not until the 1970s, by the
work of women activists and feminist scholars, this discipline is bound to take into
account the social fact of inequality man / woman.
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