Gender and well-being in Europe
Subtitle: historical and contemporary perspectives
By: by Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machado.
Contributors: Harris, Bernard, 1961-; Gálvez, Lina.; Machado, Helena.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780754672647; 9780754688631
Subjects: Well-being -- Europe; Sex discrimination against women -- Europe; Quality of life -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and well-being in historical and contemporary perspective / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machado; title: Gender based economic inequalities and women's perceptions of well-being in historical populations / Richard Wall; title: Measuring gender well-being with biological welfare indicators / Aravinda Guntupalli and Jörg Baten; title: Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being / Bernard Harris; title: Gender and well-being in the Pyrenean stem-family system / Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga; title: Overexploitation, malnutrition and stigma in a women's illness : chlorosis in contemporary Spanish medicine (1877-1936) / Josep Bernabeu-Mestre ... [et al.]; title: Changing terms of well-being : freedom, security and commitment on the agenda of Finnish nurses' associations / Heidi Haggrén; title: A proposal for a discrimination index for a non-neutral fiscal policy / Paloma Villota; title: Violent crime, gender inequalities and well-being : models based on capabilities and crime data for England and Wales / Paul Anand and Cristina Santos; title: Beyond equality : towards a system of non-androcentric indicators / Cristina Carrasco; title: Living and working conditions : perspectives, concepts and measures / Tindara Addabbo and Antonella Picchio; title: Incomplete women and strong men : accounts of infertility as a gendered construction of well-being / Helena Machado and Paula Remoaldo; title: Time to do and time to be? The use of residual time use as a gendered indicator of well-being / Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil; title: Conclusions / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machado.