Barren States

The Population Implosion in Europe
Herausgeber: Douglass, Carrie B

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Produktbeschreibung

The fertility rate has dramatically declined across Europe in recent years. Globally, over sixty-four countries have fallen below generation replacement levels and countries in eastern and southern Europe are registering the lowest birth rates in the history of humanity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781845200480
• ISBN-10: 1845200489
• Artikelnr.: 21576990

Autorenporträt

Carrie B. Douglass is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Spanish at the Mary Baldwin College, USA

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
2. A Matter of Free Choice? Some Structural and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Have or Not to Have Children in Norway
3. "Now It is Completely the Other Way Around": Political Economics of Fertility in Re-unified Germany
4. "Our Nation is Dying": Interpreting Patterns of Childbearing in Post-Soviet Russia
5. The Economy of Birthrates in the Czech Republic
6. A Quest for Belonging: The Bulgarian Demographic Crisis
Emigration and the Postsocialist Generations
7. Underfertility's Challenge to Family and Gender Relations in Urban Greece
8. "Toys and Perfumes": Imploding Italy's Population Paradox and Motherly Myths
9. "We're Fine at Home": Young People
Family and Low Fertility in Spain
10. Making Family: Depopulation and Social Crisis in France
11. Bodies Coming and Going: Women and Fertility in Postmodern Ireland
12. A Reflection on Barren States: The Demographic Paradoxes of Consumer Capitalism
Index