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Gender and family change in industrialized countries / edited by Karen Oppenheim Mason and An-Magritt Jensen.

Title
Gender and family change in industrialized countries / edited by Karen Oppenheim Mason and An-Magritt Jensen.
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Jensen, An-Magritt.
  • Mason, Karen Oppenheim.
Description
vi, 329 p. ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
  • Covering more than twenty countries, including the USA, the countries of western Europe, and Japan, each essay in the volume is organized around an important theoretical or policy question; all offer new data or analyses, and several offer prescriptions on how to fashion more equitable and humane family and gender systems.
  • The second demographic transition and the microeconomic theory of marital exchange are the dominant theoretical models considered; several chapters feature state-of-the-art quantitative analyses of large-scale surveys.
  • This volume focuses on the relationship between change in the family and change in the roles of women and men in contemporary industrial societies. Of central concern is whether change in gender roles has fuelled - or is merely historically coincident with - such changes in the family as rising divorce rates, increases in out-of-wedlock childbearing, declining marriage rates, and a growing disconnection between the lives of men and children.
Series Statement
International studies in demography
Uniform Title
International studies in demography.
Subject
  • Demographic transition > Congresses
  • Families > Congresses
  • Family
  • Population Dynamics
  • Social Conditions
  • Women > Social conditions > Congresses
  • Women
Genre/Form
Congress.
Note
  • Papers presented at a seminar organized by the Committee on Gender and Population of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and held in Rome, Jan. 1992.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction / Karen Oppenheim Mason and An-Magritt Jensen -- 2. The Second Demographic Transition in Western Countries: An Interpretation / R. Lesthaeghe -- 3. Chicken or Egg? A Theory of the Relationship between Feminist Movements and Family Change / Janet Saltzman Chafetz -- 4. Women's Condition, Low Fertility, and Emerging Union Patterns in Europe / Antonella Pinnelli -- 5. American Marriage Formation in the 1980s: How Important was Women's Economic Independence? / Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer and Vivian Lew -- 6. Changing Gender Roles and Below-Replacement Fertility in Japan / Noriko O. Tsuya and Karen Oppenheim Mason -- 7. Gender, Social Inequality, and Family Formation in West Germany / Johannes Huinink and Karl Ulrich Mayer -- 8. Education, Modernization, and the Risk of Marriage Disruption in Sweden, West Germany, and Italy / Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Alessandra De Rose, Jan M. Hoem and Gotz Rohwer --
  • 9. Gender Gaps in Relationships with Children: Closing or Widening? / An-Magritt Jensen -- 10. Family Change and the Welfare of Children: What Do We Know and What Can We Do About It? / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. -- 11. Women's Roles and Women's Poverty / Sara S. McLanahan, Lynne M. Casper and Annemette Sorensen -- 12. The Way to the Gender-Segregated Swedish Labour Market / Britta Hoem -- 13. Are the Interests of Women Inherently at Odds with the Interests of Children or the Family? A Viewpoint / Harriet B. Presser.
ISBN
0198289707 :
LCCN
95004190
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries