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Genders in the Life Course

Demographic Issues

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Antonella Pinnelli

    1. Department of Demography, University “La Sapienza”, Rome

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  2. Filomena Racioppi

    1. Department of Demography, University “La Sapienza”, Rome

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  3. Rosella Rettaroli

    1. Department of Statistics, University of Bologna

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  • This unique book on relations between gender system and demographic behaviours, uses powerful data sets as Family and Fertility survey

Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 19)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. The gender system in developed countries: macro and micro evidence

    • Paola Di Giulio, Antonella Pinnelli
    Pages 25-50

  3. Age at first sexual intercourse

    • Lucia Coppola
    Pages 51-70

  4. The formation of the first partnership:the role of education and employment

    • Roberto Impicciatore, Rosella Rettaroli
    Pages 71-94

  5. Ideational factors and choices of life as a couple

    • Lucia Pasquini, Alessandra Samoggia
    Pages 95-112

  6. Gender and the differential fertility

    • Antonella Pinnelli, Paola Di Giulio
    Pages 113-134

  7. The new role of the father

    • Paola Di Giulio, Simona Carrozza
    Pages 135-166

  8. Gender and first union dissolution

    • Alessandra De Rose, Mariachiara Di Cesare
    Pages 167-184

  9. Women and men after the first union dissolution

    • Aurora Angeli, Alessandra De Rose
    Pages 185-204

  10. Gender and migration: two case studies

    • Patrizia Farina, Laura Terzera
    Pages 205-235

  11. Gender and support of older unmarried people in Italy and Britain

    • Cecilia Tomassini, Karen Glaser
    Pages 237-247

  12. Male excess mortality between biology and culture

    • Annunziata Nobile
    Pages 249-281

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 213-328
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About this book

Although both demography and gender relations have been the focus of research for quite some time, the intersection of gender studies and demographic analysis is a more recent phenomenon. Fortunately, gender aspects of dem- raphy and demographic aspects of gender are two lines of research that have received increased attention in recent years, there is a growing group of researchers active in this area, and consequently, a growing body of publications of different kinds. Despite this, books treating the topic of gender and demography in a more comprehensive fashion are rare. In fact, I can think of few examples since the publication of two edited volumes in the first half of the 1990s, namely Women’s position and demographic change and Gender and family change in industrialized countries, both resulting from the activities of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. The editors of the current volume are therefore to be congratulated for taking the initiative to produce a much needed volume on gender and demography in developed countries (with a focus on Europe). The book covers a lot of ground, from the age at first int- course over union formation and union dissolution to excess male mortality, and report important findings of empirical research, mostly based on comp- ative data from a number of European countries. The source of these comp- ative data is, in most cases, the Family and Fertility Surveys (FFS) carried out in the 1990s.

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"This volume … is a most welcome contribution to the research literature. … This book could grace any sociologist’s book shelf. It would strongly benefit demographers to be exposed to these fine-grained analyses … . It is also useful to comparative international research. The sophistication of the analytical approaches … could be useful in a senior demography course, or certainly in a graduate course." (Susan A, McDaniel, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 36 (1-2), Spring/Summer, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Demography, University “La Sapienza”, Rome

    Antonella Pinnelli, Filomena Racioppi

  • Department of Statistics, University of Bologna

    Rosella Rettaroli

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