The European experience of declining fertility, 1850-1970 : the quiet revolution
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The European experience of declining fertility, 1850-1970 : the quiet revolution
（Studies in social discontinuity / general editor, Charles Tilly）
Blackwell, 1992
Available at 29 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [339]-373
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The reversal of population trends in Europe at the end of the 19th century has been seen as resulting directly from urbanization and industrialization. However, this book argues that fertility decline can be explained in terms of changes in cultural and social structure. It examines the effects of declining fertility on men and women and their relations to each other and society at large, and how its effects varied according to class, generation and origin. It also examines the effect of declining fertility on the family, gender, the role of the state and traditional ideas regarding the household and community.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The debate about European fertility decline: theories of fertility decline - a non-specialist's guide to the current debate, George Alter. Part 2 Family and gender: gender and fertility decline among the British middle classes, John Gillis
- mothers and the state in Britain, 1904-1914, Ellen Ross
- men's "marital rights" and women's "wifely duties" - changing conjugal relations in the fertility decline, Wally Secombe
- the sexual politics of reproduction, Angus McLaren
- the contours of childhood - demography, strategy and mythology of childhood in French and German lower class autobiographies, Mary Jo Maynes. Part 3 Community and class: population, change, labour markets and working class militancy - the regions around Birmingham and St Etienne, 1840-1880, Michael Hanagan
- going forward in reverse gear - culture, economy and political economy in the demographic transition of a Sicilian rural town, Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider
- the history of migration and fertility decline - the view from the road, Leslie Page Moch
- occupation and social class during fertility decline - historical perspectives, Michael Haines
- exploring a case of late French fertility decline - two contrasted Breton examples, Martine Segalen. Part 4 State and politics: constructing families, shaping women's lives - the making of Italian families between market economy and state interventions, Chiare Saraceno
- demographic nationalism in Western Europe, 1870-1960, Susan Cotts Watkins
- war, family and fertility in 20th century Europe, Jay Winter
- safety in numbers - social welfare legislation and fertility decline in Western Europe, Lynn Lees. Part 5 Postscript: movements in time - an historian's context of declining fertility, David Levine.
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