In the course of researching the issues of physical appearance, I fell on this article by Rossella Ghigi ” The female body between science and guilt “, Travail, genre et sociétés, 2/2004 (N° 12), p. 55-75. In here is a brief overview Rossella Ghigi, a historian, traces the history of the “invention” of cellulite : […]
A history of the skirt
Has just been published by editions Otherwise a book of Christine Bard, What raises the skirt. Identities, transgressions, resistance, that I have not yet had the opportunity to browse/read this book. So watch out… However, it is the opportunity for me to send you back to an interview with Pierre Bourdieu about the skirt, ” […]
On the path to equality between girls and boys to school
Bar des sciences de Montbéliard
I was yesterday evening, 23 February, invited her to the bar des sciences de Montbéliard, organized by Pascal Rémond in the framework of the sciences building. Since march 2007, Pascal REMOND is scrambling to organize a “Bar of science”, public, original and varied. The formula is agile and fun to share ! A big thank […]
social differences between men and women
A few years ago (2002) is published by éditions La Dispute the translation of a text of Goffman, originally published in the United States in 1977, and until then little known1. It is The arrangement of the sexes. Erving Goffman shows that the basis of social differences between the sexes reside a large number of […]
” Villa my dream “, “Ker Lulu” sociological analysis of the names of house
I rediscovered today a small book very nice. Fresh, summery, but also methodical and well-reasoned. This book is one of Anne Chaté, ” Villa my dream “, ” Ker Lulu “sociological analysis of the names of house, published in 2005 by éditions L’harmattan. Maxims first name, going by the initials and the diminutifs, Anne Chaté […]
What do you think of the future program in second grade ?
Conference of Jean-Pierre Poulain Thursday, 4 February
We receive this Thursday, February 4, Jean-Pierre Poulain at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (site Descartes) to a conference on obesity Obesity, an object for social sciences ? Jean-Pierre POULAIN Professor of sociology, University of Toulouse Le Mirail Thursday February 4, 2010 at 18 hours at room F008 Obesity has continued in recent years […]
Utopias and feminist experiments in urban
Utopias and feminist experiments in urban, work under the direction of Sylvette Denèfle (Presses universitaires de Rennes, coll. “Social geography “, 2009) The urban space is a space that is gendered, where the social differences between the sexes express all of their dimensions : this is the nodal point of this book of collective Utopias […]
Introduction to information science
Introduction to information science, a book under the direction of Clément Arsenault and Jean-Michel Salaün (Discovery, Al “Great Guides Manuals’, 2010) In the age of web 2.0, blogs, wikis, Jean-Michel Salaün and Clément Arsenault perform in the “great manual” of the collection Markers to the Discovery, a work beneficial to (re -) definition of what […]