Simon Szreter

Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860 1940

Herausgeber: De Vries, Jan; Smith, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A unique interpretation of falling fertility in Britain between 1860 and 1940, with new and surprising findings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1162g
• ISBN-13: 9780521528689
• ISBN-10: 0521528682
• Artikelnr.: 21333988

Autorenporträt

Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Historiographical Introduction: A Genealogy of
Approaches: 1. The construction and the study of the fertility decline in
Britain: social science and history; Part II. The Professional Model of
Social Classes: An Intellectual History: 2. Social classification of
occupations and the GRO in the nineteenth century; 3. Social classification
and nineteenth-century naturalistic social science; 4. The emergence of a
social explanation of class inequalities among environmentalists,
1901-1904; 5. The emergence of the professional model as the official
system of social classification, 1905-1928; Part III. A New Analysis of the
1911 Census Occupational Fertility Data: 6. A test of the coherence of the
professional model of class-differential fertility decline; 7. Multiple
fertility declines in Britain: occupational variation in completed
fertility and nuptiality; 8. How was fertility controlled? The spacing
versus stopping debate and the culture of abstinence; Part IV. Conceptions
and Refutations: 9. A general approach to fertility change and the history
of falling fertilities in England and Wales; 10. Social class, communities,
gender and nationalism in the study of fertility change; Appendices;
Bibliography; Index.