Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesThis book is the first of four books based on a series of symposia funded by COST, which is an intergovernmental framework for the promotion of European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. It draws on both historical and contemporary European case-studies to offer a sophisticated account of the relationship between gender and well-being. The authors focus on key discussions of the changing conceptions of well-being from early twentieth century calculations of the relationship between income and the cost-of-living, to more recent critiques from feminist writers. Their fascinating answers allow them to significantly challenge the issue with the idea that well-being is not only associated with income or opulence but also relates to more abstract concepts including capabilities, freedom, and agency of different women and men and will be of considerable interest to economic and social historians, sociologists of health, gender, sexuality and economists. |
Contents
1934 | |
1942 | |
Genderbased Economic Inequalities and Womens Perceptions of Well | 1967 |
Measuring Gender WellBeing with Biological Welfare Indicators | 1989 |
Anthropometric History Gender and the Measurement of WellBeing | 1983 |
Gender and WellBeing in the Pyrenean Stem Family System | 1982 |
Freedom Security and Commitment | |
A Proposal for a Discrimination Index for a Nonneutral Fiscal Policy | |
Models Based | |
Towards a System of NonAndrocentric Indicators | |
Perspectives Concepts and Measures | |
Gendered Construction of WellBeing | |
Time to Do and Time to Be? The Use of Residual Time as a Gendered | |
Summary and Conclusions | |
Other editions - View all
Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Lina Gálvez Limited preview - 2016 |
Gender and Well-being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Bernard Harris,Lina Gálvez,Helena Machado No preview available - 2009 |
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