The French social thinker Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as one of many significant thinkers of the 20th century. In a occupation of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied quite a lot of issues: schooling, tradition, paintings, politics, economics, literature, legislations, and philosophy. all through those experiences, Bourdieu built a hugely specialized sequence of recommendations that he known as his "thinking tools", that have been used to discover the workings of up to date society.
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts highlights his most vital recommendations and examines them intimately. each one bankruptcy bargains with a person inspiration and is written to be of quick use to the coed with very little past wisdom of Bourdieu. This re-creation of the best textual content is fullyyt revised and up-to-date and comprises new essays on method, Politics and Social area.
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8 Sarah Sexton, ‘Too Many Grannies? The politics of Population Aging’, Different Takes, The Publication of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, No 42, Fall 2006. 9 Yaw Martin Agyemang Badu, ‘Ageing in Dignity’, Ghana Web, 29 Dec 2010. 10 BBC World Service, 6 Jan 2011. 11 Fred Pearce, Peoplequake, Eden Project Books, 2010. 54 4 A woman’s body The idea that women should have control over their own bodies and their own fertility is not new. But prudes, priests and patriarchs are fighting it tooth and nail.
Today, concerns about biological limits to growth – that were already being expressed in the 1980s – have resurfaced with renewed vigor. Climate change has added urgency to debates on population and the environmental limits to growth. ‘Population control’ is back on the agenda of certain campaign groups. This chapter draws extensively from the work of Matthew Connelly and Betsy Hartmann. Sources: Matthew Connelly, Fatal Misconception, Belknap Harvard, 2008; Betsy Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, Southend Press 1995.
Women are likely to be the majority of old people – and women are also likely to be called upon to be the main carers of elderly relatives. But the successes of feminism over the last few decades suggest that the generation of women entering old age today may be better equipped to fight for their rights than their mothers or their grandmothers were. Proud to be gray Many of today’s old people, both women and men, are already doing so. The Gray Panthers, started in the US by Maggie Kuhn in 1972, have established themselves as a political force with some clout.