1st Edition

Cohabitation in Europe A revenge of history?

Edited By Dalia Leinarte, Jan Kok Copyright 2018
166 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

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. The variation in levels of cohabitation cannot be explained solely by regional differences, religious affiliation, nationality, levels of education, or by the... Read more

Introduction – Cohabitation in Europe: a revenge of history? Jan Kok and Dalia Leinarte

1. Cohabitation from illegal to institutionalized practice: the case of Norway 1972–2010 Liv Johanne Syltevik

2. Stigmatized cohabitation in the Latvian region of the eastern Baltic littoral: nineteenth and twentieth centuries Andrejs Plakans and Ineta Lipša

3. ‘As if she was my own child’: cohabitation, community, and the English criminal courts, 1855–1900 Ginger S. Frost

4. Education and transition from cohabitation to marriage in Lithuania Aušra Maslauskaite and Mare Baublyte

5. The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach Anca Dohotariu

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 Sebastian Klüsener

Biography

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.