historical and contemporary perspectives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Harris, Bernard > [ed]
- Creator
- Gálvez, Lina > [ed]
- Creator
- Machado, Helena > [ed]
- Contributor
- Sauvain-Dugerdil, Claudine
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2009
- Thesaurus
- verzorgingsstaat, economie, armoede, inkomen, leefvormen, emoties, geweld, betaalde arbeid, belastingen, statistiek, Europa, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- This book draws on both historical and contemporary European case-studies to offer an 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 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.