This story contributes to denaturalizing the family and the couple by showing the historical conditions of the emergence, promotion, and imposition of a patriarchal marital model.

How might we reconsider retraining and professional mobility? This volume compiles case studies (of physicians, farmers, consultants, etc.) that, by defining 'displacement' (of places, borders, and capital), provide a fresh insight into a significant issue in modern society.

Finally available in French, Annette Lareau's book Unequal Childhood is a major work in the American social sciences, situated at the intersection of the sociology of the family, childhood, education and social stratification. Original both in its method and its approach, it reveals the various mechanisms by which social inequalities are formed.

This book offers a socio-history of the silent revolution that took place between 1945 and 1968 in professional practices in the physical sciences. How did physicists and chemists, most of whom considered themselves to be scholars, became researchers?