Gender and Well-Being in Europe Historical and Contemporary Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.Bernard Harris is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. He has published widely in areas relating to the history of health and well-being and the history of social policy. He has edited or coedited books on Race, science and medicine 1700-1960 (Routledge, 1999), Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America (Routledge, 2007), Gender and wellbeing in historical and comparative perspective (Ashgate, 2009), and Welfare and old age (Pickering and Chatto, 2012). He has also authored or co-authored books on The health of the schoolchild (Open University Press, 1995), The origins of the British welfare state (Palgrave, 2004), and The changing body: health, nutrition and human development in the western world since 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is due to become one of three co-editors of the Voluntary Sector Review in 2015. Lina G??lvez Mu??oz is Professor of Economic History at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and a member of the Economic Hil3"