Gender and Well-Being in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

This is the first of four books based on a series of symposia, funded by the European Science Foundation under the auspices of COST (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 identifiable with income or opulence but relates to more abstract concepts including capabilities, freedom, and agency of different women and men and will be of considerable interest to Sociologists of Health, Gender, Sexuality and Economics. Gender And Well-being From The Historical And Contemporary Perspective / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez And Helena Machado -- Gender-based Economic Inequalities And Women's Perceptions Of Well-being In Historical Populations / Richard Wall -- Measuring Gender Well-being With Biological Welfare Indicators / Aravinda Guntupalli And Jörg Baten -- Anthropometric History, Gender And The Measurement Of Well-being / Bernard Harris -- Gender And Well-being In The Pyrenean Stem-family System / Marie-pierre Arrizabalaga -- Overexploitation, Malnutrition And Stigma In A Women's Illness : Chlorosis In Contemporary Spanish Medicine (1877-1936) / Josep Bernabeu-mestre ... [et Al.] -- Changing Terms Of Well-being : Freedom, Security And Commitment On The Agenda Of Finnish Nurses' Associations / Heidi Haggrén -- A Proposal For A Discrimination Index For A Non-neutral Fiscal Policy / Paloma Villota -- Violent Crime, Gender Inequalities And Well-being : Models Based On Capabilities And Crime Data For England And Wales / Paul Anand And Cristina Santos -- Beyond Equality : Towards A System Of Non-androcentric Indicators / Cristina Carrasco -- Living And Working Conditions : Perspectives, Concepts And Measures / Tindara Addabbo And Antonella Picchio -- Incomplete Women And Strong Men : Accounts Of Infertility As A Gendered Construction Of Well-being / Helena Machado And Paula Remoaldo -- Time To Do And Time To Be? : The Use Of Residual Time Use As A Gendered Indicator Of Well-being / Claudine Sauvain-dugerdil -- Summary And Conclusions / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez And Helena Machado. Edited By Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez, Helena Machado. Based On Papers Presented At A Symposium At The University Of Modena In Italy In 2006. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 List of Figures......Page 8 List of Tables......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Preface......Page 18 1 Gender and Well-Being from the Historical and Contemporary Perspective......Page 22 PART I Gender and Well-Being in the European Past......Page 42 2 Gender-based Economic Inequalities and Women’s Perceptions of Well-Being in Historical Populations......Page 44 3 Measuring Gender Well-Being with Biological Welfare Indicators......Page 64 4 Anthropometric History, Gender and the Measurement of Well-Being......Page 80 5 Gender and Well-Being in the Pyrenean Stem Family System......Page 106 6 Overexploitation, Malnutrition and Stigma in a Woman’s Illness: Chlorosis in Contemporary Spanish Medicine (1877–1936)......Page 124 7 Changing Terms of Well-Being: Freedom, Security and Commitment on the Agenda of Finnish Nurses’ Associations......Page 138 PART II Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Well-Being......Page 160 8 A Proposal for a Discrimination Index for a Non-neutral Fiscal Policy......Page 162 9 Violent Crime, Gender Inequalities and Well-Being: Models Based on Capabilities and Crime Data for England and Wales......Page 178 10 Beyond Equality: Towards a System of Non-Androcentric Indicators......Page 206 11 Living and Working Conditions: Perspectives, Concepts and Measures......Page 224 12 Incomplete Women and Strong Men – Accounts of Infertility as a Gendered Construction of Well-Being......Page 244 13 Time to Do and Time to Be? The Use of Residual Time as a Gendered Indicator of Well-Being......Page 264 14 Summary and Conclusions......Page 288 Index......Page 292 Gender and well-being in historical and contemporary perspective / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machado Gender based economic inequalities and women's perceptions of well-being in historical populations / Richard Wall Measuring gender well-being with biological welfare indicators / Aravinda Guntupalli and Jörg Baten Anthropometric history, gender and the measurement of well-being / Bernard Harris Gender and well-being in the Pyrenean stem-family system / Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Overexploitation, malnutrition and stigma in a women's illness : chlorosis in contemporary Spanish medicine (1877-1936) / Josep Bernabeu-Mestre ... [et al.] Changing terms of well-being : freedom, security and commitment on the agenda of Finnish nurses' associations / Heidi Haggrén A proposal for a discrimination index for a non-neutral fiscal policy / Paloma Villota Violent crime, gender inequalities and well-being : models based on capabilities and crime data for England and Wales / Paul Anand and Cristina Santos Beyond equality : towards a system of non-androcentric indicators / Cristina Carrasco Living and working conditions : perspectives, concepts and measures / Tindara Addabbo and Antonella Picchio Incomplete women and strong men : accounts of infertility as a gendered construction of well-being / Helena Machado and Paula Remoaldo Time to do and time to be? The use of residual time use as a gendered indicator of well-being / Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil Conclusions / Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez and Helena Machado. 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. This volume 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 findings will be of considerable interest to Sociologists of Health, Gender, Sexuality and Economics