Transmission of Well-Being
Transmission of Well-Being What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in…
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Transmission of Well-Being
What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution.
The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of