Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940

By:

Simon Szreter

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

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This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.

Release date Australia

January 11th, 1996

Author

Simon Szreter

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

3 Halftones, unspecified; 12 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

726

Series

Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time

Dimensions

158x235x44

ISBN-13

9780521343435

Product ID

2159424

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