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The transmission of well-being : gendered marriage strategies and inheritance systems in Europe (17th-20th centuries)

Title: The transmission of well-being : gendered marriage strategies and inheritance systems in Europe (17th-20th centuries) / Margarida Durães [and others] (eds).
Publication: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, ©2009.

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Additional Authors

Durães, Margarida.

Description

525 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

List of contributors -- Introduction : historicizing well-being from a gender perspective / Margarida Durães ... [et al] -- Marriage strategies and well-being among 19th century Basque property owners / Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga -- Consanguineous marriages as a strategy of well-being : an example from 19th century Alto Minho / Emilia Lagido -- Cousin marriage and well-being among the Portuguese royal family during the 15th and 16th centuries / Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa -- Marriage strategies, women's dowries and conflicts between relatives in Romanian society (18th century) / Constanta Vintila-Ghitulescu -- Marriage strategies in Azorean communities of Pico Island (19th century) : differentiated female behaviour in choosing a lifelong partner / Norberta Amorim and Carlota Santos -- When generation trumped sex : widow's well-being and the transmission of family business in 19th century northern France / Beatrice Craig -- Providing well-being to women through inheritance and succession : Portugal in the 18th and 19th centuries / Margarida Duraes -- Men, women and property in Finland and Sweden in the 18th and 19th centuries / Beatrice Moring -- Achieving well-being in Spain through the single heir system (18th-19th centuries) / Llorenc Ferrer Alos -- Gender and the intergenerational transfer of property and social position in the 18th and early 19th century northern Dutch countryside / Richard Paping -- Children born out of wedlock : legal rights and social reforms in Norway from the 17th century to the present / Kari Telste -- Illegitimate children and court procedures for the determination of paternity in Portugal (1893-1966) : gendered and social differences on acceding to inheritance / Helena Cristina F. Machado -- Female life courses and property transmission in the Azorean periphery (Portugal) : the case of the island of Sao Jorge in the 19th century / Paulo Lopes Matos -- Well-being or survival? : women's future and family transmission strategies in north-western rural Spain, 18th-19th centuries / Ofelia Rey Castelao -- To remarry or not : well-being, female property and widowhood in early-modern France / Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux -- Female headship, household position, and gendered well-being in peasant societies : evidence from the territories of the historical kingdom of Poland (18th century) / Mikolaj Szoltysek -- Gender, well-being, and old age for persons without a life companion : a rural case study around the turn of the century 1900 Rendalen, Norway / Solvi Sogner -- Provisions for care and neighborhood funds in early modern Kyoto / Mary Louise Nagata.

ISBN

9783034300568
3034300565

LCCN

2009030260

OCLC

ocn429041987
429041987
SCSB-1549456

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library