Full Description
This 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
1: Gender and Well-Being from the Historical and Contemporary Perspective; I: Gender and Well-Being in the European Past; 2: Gender-based Economic Inequalities and Women's Perceptions of Well-Being in Historical Populations; 3: Measuring Gender Well-Being with Biological Welfare Indicators; 4: Anthropometric History, Gender and the Measurement of Well-Being; 5: Gender and Well-Being in the Pyrenean Stem Family System; 6: Overexploitation, Malnutrition and Stigma in a Woman's Illness; 7: Changing Terms of Well-Being; II: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Well-Being; 8: A Proposal for a Discrimination Index for a Non-neutral Fiscal Policy; 9: Violent Crime, Gender Inequalities and Well-Being; 10: Beyond Equality; 11: Living and Working Conditions; 12: Incomplete Women and Strong Men - Accounts of Infertility as a Gendered Construction of Well-Being; 13: Time to Do and Time to Be? The Use of Residual Time as a Gendered Indicator of Well-Being; 14: Summary and Conclusions
