Cohabitation in Europe: A Revenge of History?

ISBN-13: 9780367234348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 156 str.

Dalia Leinarte; Jan Kok

Opis

Originating from discussions about the reasons for, and regional variations behind, the remarkable rise in cohabitation that started in the 1970s – a rise that continues to this day – this book explores the main stimuli behind cohabitation. This book was originally published as a special issue of The History of the Family.

Spis treści

Introduction – Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history?  1. Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010  2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries  3. ‘As if she was my own child’: cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts, 1855–1900  4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania  5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach  6. Spatial variation in non-marital fertility across Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: recent trends, persistence of the past, and potential future pathways

O autorze

Dalia Leinarte is Professor of Family History at Vilnius University, Lithuania. She is also a Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, UK, and an expert of the UN CEDAW Committee. She is the author of Adopting and Remembering Soviet Reality: Life Stories of Lithuanian Women, 1945–1970 (2010).

Jan Kok is Professor of Social, Economic and Demographic History at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.