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Title: The Transmission of Well-Being

The Transmission of Well-Being

Gendered Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries)

by Margarida Durães (Volume editor) Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (Volume editor) LIorenç Ferrer i Alòs (Volume editor) Jan Kok (Volume editor)
©2009 Edited Collection XII, 526 Pages
History & Political Science

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
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.

Biographical notes

Margarida Durães (Volume editor) Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux (Volume editor) LIorenç Ferrer i Alòs (Volume editor) Jan Kok (Volume editor)

The Editors: Margarida Durães is Professor of Contemporary History at University of Minho (Portugal) where she teaches History of Family and History of Migrations. She developed comparative international projects in cooperation with Brasil, Spain and France. Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, a social historian and historical demographer, is Maître de Conférences at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre de Recherches Historiques/CNRS, Paris (France), where she teaches History of the Family. Llorenç Ferrer i Alòs is Professor Catedrático at the Department of Contemporary History at Barcelona University (Spain) where he teaches economic and social history. His interests are family history, agrarian history, historical demography and industrialization. Jan Kok publishes on family history, historical demography and Information and Communications Technology/ICT-related research practices in the Humanities. He is senior researcher at the Virtual Knowledge Studio and the International Institute of Social History (The Netherlands) and visiting professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

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