Cohabitation in Europe

A revenge of history?
Herausgeber: Leinarte, Dalia; Kok, Jan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s - a rise that continues to this day - this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367234348
• ISBN-10: 0367234343
• Artikelnr.: 56924303

Autorenporträt

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of Family History at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is also a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945-1970 (2010). Jan Kok is Professor of Social, Economic and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history? 1.
Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway
1972-2010 2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern
Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries 3. 'As if she was my
own child': cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts,
1855-1900 4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in
Lithuania 5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative
sociological approach 6. Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across
Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends,
persistence of the past, and potential future pathways