The Transmission of Well-Being
Gendered Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries)
©2009
Edited Collection
XII,
526 Pages
Summary
What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 526
- Publication Year
- 2009
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034300568
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Soziologie Kulturgeschichte Women's and Gender Studies
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2009. XII, 526 pp.
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