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Contents Introduction p. 1 Economic Capital p. 2 Cultural Capital p. 4 Embodied Capital Objectified Capital Institutionalised Capital Social Capital p. 6 But Where is the Gender? p. 8 An Argument for Gender Capital p. 10 Gendered Embodied Capital Gendered Institutional Gendered Objectified Capital Gendered Social Capital p. 13 Gendered Economic Capital p. 14 Conclusion p. 14 Bibliography p. 15 Tables p.18 Gender Capital ? Bourdieu and Gender Inequality When Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) first published her 'A Vindication of the rights of Woman', in 1792, in answer to her friend Tom Paines' 'The Rights of Man', she lay the foundations of an awareness that gathered force to become the modern feminist movement. The campaign appeared to reach a public peak in the late 1970's, yet although there was a flurry of equal rights legislation, and women now no longer seem to feel it necessary to 'burn their bras', it is easy to see that 'true' equal rights and opportunities are far from realisation. In...

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