Barren states : the population "implosion" in Europe /

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Edition:English ed.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 2005.
Description:x, 270 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5606126
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Other authors / contributors:Douglass, Carrie B., 1948-
ISBN:1845200497 (pbk.)
1845200489 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Matter of Free Choice? Some Structural and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Have or Not to Have Children in Norway
  • 3. "Now It is Completely the Other Way Around": Political Economics of Fertility in Re-unified Germany
  • 4. "Our Nation is Dying": Interpreting Patterns of Childbearing in Post-Soviet Russia
  • 5. The Economy of Birthrates in the Czech Republic
  • 6. A Quest for Belonging: The Bulgarian Demographic Crisis, Emigration and the Postsocialist Generations
  • 7. Underfertility's Challenge to Family and Gender Relations in Urban Greece
  • 8. "Toys and Perfumes": Imploding Italy's Population Paradox and Motherly Myths
  • 9. "We're Fine at Home": Young People, Family and Low Fertility in Spain
  • 10. Making Family: Depopulation and Social Crisis in France
  • 11. Bodies Coming and Going: Women and Fertility in Postmodern Ireland
  • 12. A Reflection on Barren States: The Demographic Paradoxes of Consumer Capitalism
  • Index