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To understand better what that book review you link to is about, one could follow the instructions given below. Lineages of the Feminine: An Outline of the History of Women by Emmanuel Todd Where are They? A Sketch of Women's History (Où en sont-elles? Une esquisse de l'histoire des femmes), Paris, Seuil, 2022. DESCRIPTION: “Une esquisse de l'histoire des femmes. Nous vivons une révolution anthropologique. Nous la sentons dans le mouvement #MeToo, dans la dénonciation du féminicide, dans une critique de plus en plus pugnace de la domination patriarcale. Pourquoi cette montée soudaine d’une conception antagoniste du rapport entre hommes et femmes ? Dans cet ouvrage, Emmanuel Todd, informé de ses recherches d’anthropologue, avance que l’émancipation des femmes a pour l’essentiel déjà eu lieu mais qu’elle conduit à des contradictions nouvelles. En même temps qu’à la liberté, les femmes accèdent à l’anxiété économique, à l’anomie, au ressentiment ‑ individuel et de classe. Pour comprendre notre présent, il retrace, depuis l’origine, l’évolution de la relation homme/femme dans l’espèce homo sapiens. Il mène aussi une large étude empirique de la convergence entre hommes et femmes et des différences qui continuent de les séparer ‑ d’éducation, de métier, de longévité, de suicide ou d’homicide, de comportement électoral ou de racisme. Il montre comment la libération des femmes a permis l’effondrement de la religion et de l’homophobie, contribué au recul de l’industrie, conduit à l’essor de la bisexualité et au phénomène transgenre. Un livre qui s’efforce de comprendre, hors des sentiers trop fréquentés de l’idéologie, les paradoxes profonds de notre révolution. Emmanuel Todd est historien et anthropologue. Il a notamment publié L’Origine des systèmes familiaux (vol. 1, Gallimard, 2011), Qui est Charlie ? (Seuil, 2015), Où en sommes-nous ?, Une esquisse de l'histoire humaine (Seuil, 2017), et Les Luttes de classes en France au xxie siècle (Seuil, 2020).” TRANSLATION OF THE ABOVE: A sketch of women's history. We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We feel it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide, in an increasingly pugnacious criticism of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men and women? In this work, Emmanuel Todd, informed by his research as an anthropologist, argues that the emancipation of women has essentially already taken place but that it leads to new contradictions. At the same time as freedom, women gain access to economic anxiety, anomie, resentment – individual and class. To understand our present, he traces, from the beginning, the evolution of the male/female relationship in the homo sapiens species. He is also conducting a broad empirical study of the convergence between men and women and the differences that continue to separate them – education, profession, longevity, suicide or homicide, electoral behavior or racism. It shows how women's liberation allowed the collapse of religion and homophobia, contributed to the decline of industry, and led to the rise of bisexuality and the transgender phenomenon. A book which strives to understand, outside the too-trodden paths of ideology, the profound paradoxes of our revolution. Emmanuel Todd is a historian and anthropologist. He notably published The Origin of Family Systems (vol. 1, Gallimard, 2011), Who is Charlie? (Seuil, 2015), Where are we?, A sketch of human history (Seuil, 2017), and Class Struggles in France in the 21st century (Seuil, 2020).” The French .EPUB edition may first be downloaded, then converted to .PDF format using a free online utility, then divided into two parts (necessary due to Google translate size limitations) then Google-translated, then read. Her review makes more sense when read alongside the book. M. I did the above conversions, but cannot find a way to anonymously upload the result anywhere! These days, every site wants to know who you are IRL... Would Thomas Paine have approved? Would the American revolution have occurred without Common Sense? https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=Thomas+Paine+revolutionary+author SEE ALSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Todd The yet-to-be-translated-into-English .EPUB edition of Todd's book: https://annas-archive.org/md5/c564f8f27e201bb197502839a9d9f37b |