{"title":"Emmanuel Todd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmmanuel Todd\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of societal structures and historical dynamics through a deeply analytical lens. His works engage with themes of politics, culture, and social evolution, providing readers with nuanced perspectives on modernity and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlending rigorous research with insightful commentary, Todd's books examine the foundations of civilisation and the shifts that shape contemporary societies. Ideal for readers interested in \u003cem\u003epolitics, current affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and critical cultural analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lineages-of-the-feminine-by-emmanuel-todd-9781509555086","title":"Lineages of the Feminine","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men and women, at the very moment when progress is accelerating and when the goals of first- and second-wave feminism seem on the verge of being achieved?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLineages of the Feminine\u003c\/em\u003e, the anthropologist and historian Emmanuel Todd, while not underestimating the importance of crucial inequalities that remain, argues that the emancipation of women has essentially already taken place but that it has given rise to new tensions and contradictions. As women gain more freedom, they also gain access to traditional male social pathologies: economic anxiety, the disorientation of anomie, and individual and class resentment. But because they remain women, with the ability to bear children, their burden as human beings, although richer, is now more difficult to bear than that of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn order to understand our current condition, Todd retraces the evolution of the male\/female relationship through the long history of the human species, from the emergence of \u003cem\u003eHomo sapiens\u003c\/em\u003e a hundred thousand years ago to the present. He also conducts a broad empirical study of the convergence between men and women today and of the differences that still separate them – in education, in employment and in relation to longevity, suicide and homicide, electoral behaviour and racism. He explores the relations between women’s liberation and other changes in contemporary societies such as the collapse of religion, the decline of industry, the decline of homophobia, the rise of bisexuality and the transgender phenomenon, and the decline in a sense of the collective life. 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As America's global dominance evaporates, Todd foresees the emergence of a Eurasian alliance bringing together Europe, Russia, Japan, and the Arab-Islamic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTodd calmly and straightforwardly takes stock of many negative trends, including America's weakened commitment to the socio-economic integration of African Americans, a bulimic economy that increasingly relies on smoke and mirrors and the goodwill of foreign investors, and a foreign policy that squanders the country's reserves of \"soft power\" while its militaristic arsonist-fireman behaviour is met with increasing resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by a demographer and historian who foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union, this original and daring book cannot be ignored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595508760812,"sku":"9780231131032","price":104.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231131032-after-the-empire.jpg?v=1777898670"},{"product_id":"lineages-of-modernity-by-emmanuel-todd-9781509570119","title":"Lineages of Modernity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn most developed countries, there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. 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