TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szreter,Simon
TI  - Fertility, class, and gender in Britain, 1860-1940
T2  - Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time
SN  - 0585031576
AV  - HB3583 .S97 1996eb
U1  - 304.6/0941 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Fertility, Human
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Birth Rate
KW  - history
KW  - Demography
KW  - Family Planning Services
KW  - Population Dynamics
KW  - Social Class
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Population
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - Humans
KW  - Fertility
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 636-674) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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