%0 Book
%A Margarida Durães
%A Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux
%A LIorenç Ferrer i Alòs
%A Jan Kok
%D 2021
%C Lausanne, Switzerland
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T The Transmission of Well-Being
%B Gendered Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries)
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1106315
%X 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.
%K Soziologie, Kulturgeschichte, Women's and Gender Studies
%G English