Fertility Class And Gender In Britain 1860 1940

Author : Simon Szreter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521528682

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Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940 by Simon Szreter Pdf

This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.

Author : Geoffrey Barnes,Timothy Guinnane,Yale University. Economic Growth Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:879511058

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Social Class and the Fertility Transition by Geoffrey Barnes,Timothy Guinnane,Yale University. Economic Growth Center Pdf

Author : Simon Szreter,Kate Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139492898

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Sex Before the Sexual Revolution by Simon Szreter,Kate Fisher Pdf

What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable intimate lives.

Author : Simon Szreter
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781580469616

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The Hidden Affliction by Simon Szreter Pdf

Multidisciplinary collection of essays on the relationship of infertility and the "historic" STIS--gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis--producing surprising new insights in studies from across the globe and spanning millennia.

Author : Eilidh Garrett,Alice Reid,Kevin Schürer,Simon Szreter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139428811

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Changing Family Size in England and Wales by Eilidh Garrett,Alice Reid,Kevin Schürer,Simon Szreter Pdf

This volume is an important study in demographic history. It draws on the individual returns from the 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses of England and Wales, to which Garrett, Reid, Schürer and Szreter were permitted access ahead of scheduled release dates. Using the responses of the inhabitants of thirteen communities to the special questions included in the 1911 'fertility' census, they consider the interactions between the social, economic and physical environments in which people lived and their family-building experience and behaviour. Techniques and approaches based in demography, history and geography enable the authors to re-examine the declines in infant mortality and marital fertility which occurred at the turn of the twentieth century. Comparisons are drawn within and between white-collar, agricultural and industrial communities, and the analyses, conducted at both local and national level, lead to conclusions which challenge both contemporary and current orthodoxies.

Author : Sarah Irwin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415339375

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Reshaping Social Life by Sarah Irwin Pdf

Through analysis of key areas of social life, Irwin breaks with convention and develops a conceptual and analytical perspective of social change, focusing on relationality, context and interdependence.

Author : Hilary Cooper,Simon Szreter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009005203

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After the Virus by Hilary Cooper,Simon Szreter Pdf

Reveals the deep roots of the UK's lack of resilience when COVID-19 hit and sets out an ambitious manifesto for change.

Author : Paul Addison,Harriet Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405141406

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A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000 by Paul Addison,Harriet Jones Pdf

A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate

Author : A. Miles
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0333620593

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Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England by A. Miles Pdf

This pioneering book provides the first systematic historical analysis of occupational and social mobility in England. Using a collection of over 10,000 marriage certificates to examine inter-generational change, and almost 500 autobiographical texts and abstracts to explore the dynamics of career mobility, it shows how the development of the nineteenth-century economy was accompanied by rising rates of mobility, which made English society more 'open' while at the same encouraging a distinct process of working-class formation.

Author : L. Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230598812

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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century by L. Young Pdf

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks.

Author : Michaela Kreyenfeld,Dirk Konietzka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319446677

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Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences by Michaela Kreyenfeld,Dirk Konietzka Pdf

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. An additional chapter on childlessness in the United States puts the European experience in perspective. The book offers readers such insights as the determinants of lifelong childlessness, whether governments can and should counteract increasing childlessness, how the phenomenon differs across social strata and the role economic uncertainties play. In addition, the book also examines life course dynamics and biographical patterns, assisted reproduction as well as the consequences of childlessness. Childlessness has been increasing rapidly in most European countries in recent decades. This book offers readers expert analysis into this issue from leading experts in the field of family behavior. From causes to consequences, it explores the many facets of childlessness throughout Europe to present a comprehensive portrait of this important demographic and sociological trend.

Author : Keith Breckenridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781316123942

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Biometric State by Keith Breckenridge Pdf

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith Breckenridge traces how the origins of the systems being developed in places like India, Mexico, Nigeria and Ghana can be found in a century-long history of biometric government in South Africa, with the South African experience of centralized fingerprint identification unparalleled in its chronological depth and demographic scope. He shows how empire, and particularly the triangular relationship between India, the Witwatersrand and Britain, established the special South African obsession with biometric government, and shaped the international politics that developed around it for the length of the twentieth century. He also examines the political effects of biometric registration systems, revealing their consequences for the basic workings of the institutions of democracy and authoritarianism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Teenage girls
ISBN : OCLC:610404545

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A Woman's Place by Anonim Pdf

Author : Siân Pooley,Kaveri Qureshi
Publisher : Fertility, Reproduction and Se
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800737211

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Parenthood Between Generations by Siân Pooley,Kaveri Qureshi Pdf

Recent literature has identified modern "parenting" as an expert-led practice--one which begins with pre-pregnancy decisions, entails distinct types of intimate relationships, places intense burdens on mothers and increasingly on fathers too. Exploring within diverse historical and global contexts how men and women make--and break--relations between generations when becoming parents, this volume brings together innovative qualitative research by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists. The chapters focus tightly on inter-generational transmission and demonstrate its importance for understanding how people become parents and rear children.

Author : Rickie Solinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780199930043

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Reproductive Politics by Rickie Solinger Pdf

The term "reproductive politics" was coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary Roe v. Wade-era power struggles over contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and other satellite issues. Forty years later, questions about reproductive rights are just as complex--and controversial--as they were then. Focusing mainly on the United States, Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® explores the legal, political, religious, social, ethical, and medical dimensions of this hotly contested arena. Tracing the historical roots of reproductive politics up through the present, Rickie Solinger considers a range of topics from abortion and contraception to health care reform and assisted reproductive technologies. Solinger tackles some of the most contentious questions up for debate today, including the definition of "fetal personhood," and the roles poverty and welfare policy play in shaping reproductive rights. The answers she provides are informative, balanced, and sometimes quite surprising. Offering a wide range of information in an accessible and engaging manner, Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® orients readers and provides the knowledge necessary to follow the debates in this important and continually evolving field. What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.