Description
| Product ID: | 9783034300568 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Title: | The Transmission of Well-Being |
| Subtitle: | Gendered Marriage Strategies and Inheritance Systems in Europe (17th-20th Centuries) |
| Authors: | Author: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux, Margarida Duraes, LIorenc Ferrer i Alos, Jan Kok |
| Page Count: | 526 |
| Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology and anthropology, Gender studies: women, Sociology & anthropology |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-10-05 |
