Social Class and the Fertility Transition
Author | : Geoffrey Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : John Bongaarts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Demographic transition |
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Author | : Anne Lise Ellingsæter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0415810914 |
Aiming to expand our comprehension of the complex structures and cultures that influence reproductive choice, this book uses empirical studies from six nations - France, Scandinavia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Italy - to show how different economic, political and cultural contexts interact in young adults' fertility rationales. It will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, demography, anthropology and gender studies.
Author | : Jane Schneider |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816515196 |
The historical decline of fertility in Europe has occupied a central place in social history and demography over the past quarter-century. Most scholars credit Europeans with modulating sexual behavior, through either abstinence or the practice of coitus interruptus, as a rational choice made in the interest of personal economic comfort; yet peasant and working classes have typically lagged behind in birth control and have given rise to the adage that "sexual embrace is the festival of the poor." Scholarly analyses of "lag" often reinforce this stigmatizing view. Now this subject is given a fresh look through a case study in Sicily, one of the last outposts of Western Europe's demographic transition. By examining population changes in a single community between 1860 and 1980, the authors offer an extended review and critique of existing models of fertility decline in Europe, proposing a new interpretation that emphasizes historical context and class relations. They show how the spread of capitalism in Sicily induced an unprecedented rate of population growth, with boom-and-bust cycles creating the class experiences in which "reputational networks" came to redefine family life; how Sicilians began to control their fertility in response to class-mediated ideas about gender relations and respectable family size; and how the town's gentry, artisan, and peasant classes adopted family planning methods at different times in response to different pressures. Jane and Peter Schneider's anthropologically oriented political-economy perspective challenges the position of Western Europe as a model for fertility decline on which every other case should converge, looking instead at the diversity of cultural ideals and practices--such as those found in Sicily--that influence the spread and form of birth control. Combining anthropological, oral historical, and archival methods in new and insightful ways, the authors' synthesis of a particular case study with a broad historical and theoretical discussion will play a major role in the ongoing debates over the history of European fertility decline and point the way toward integrating the analysis of demographic upheaval with the study of class formation and ideology.
Author | : Sean J. Cunningham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human |
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Author | : John Charles Caldwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Medical |
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Author | : Loraine Donaldson |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781557860903 |
Donaldson presents a clear, critical account of the theories, hypotheses, and models that have been put forward to explain population changes in various societies.
Author | : Simon Szreter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 2002-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521528689 |
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 |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : W. Penn Handwerker |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989-02 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : |
In this provocative volume, Handwerker advances the thesis that the key factor in revolutionary social change accompanying industrialization is the change in women's power relationships with their family. The author draws upon ethnographic, demographic and survey research on Barbados where industrial revolution and the transition from high to low fertility rates has occured quickly and recently. He compares his West Indian data with cases from the modern Third World and from England's own industrial revolution. Handwerker challenges many of the tenets of Third World modernization theory and fertility planning policy and suggests that providing women with resources through education and employment may be the best method of f