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Author Szreter, Simon

Title Fertility, class, and gender in Britain, 1860-1940 / Simon Szreter
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 704 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 27
Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time ; 27.
Contents Part I. Historiographical Introduction: A Genealogy of Approaches: 1. The construction and the study of the fertility decline in Britain: social science and history -- Part II. The Professional Model of Social Classes: An Intellectual History: 2. Social classification of occupations and the GRO in the nineteenth century -- 3. Social classification and nineteenth-century naturalistic social science -- 4. The emergence of a social explanation of class inequalities among environmentalists, 1901-1904 -- 5. The emergence of the professional model as the official system of social classification, 1905-1928 -- Part III. A New Analysis of the 1911 Census Occupational Fertility Data: 6. A test of the coherence of the professional model of class-differential fertility decline -- 7. Multiple fertility declines in Britain: occupational variation in completed fertility and nuptiality -- 8. How was fertility controlled? The spacing versus stopping debate and the culture of abstinence -- Part IV. Conceptions and Refutations: 9. A general approach to fertility change and the history of falling fertilities in England and Wales -- 10. Social class, communities, gender and nationalism in the study of fertility change
Summary 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
Analysis Humans Fertility History
Great Britain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 636-674) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Fertility, Human -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Fertility, Human -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Social classes -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Social classes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Demography.
Fertility, Human -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Birth Rate -- history
Demography
Family Planning Services -- history
Population Dynamics
Social Class
Social classes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
demography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Demography
Fertility, Human
Population
Sex role
Social classes
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Population -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Population -- History -- 20th century
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585031576
9780585031576
9780521343435
0521343437