1st Edition
The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change in Europe
1. The Social Meaning of Children and Fertility Change by Anne Lise Ellingsæter, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie 2. The Politics of Parenting: The Meaning of Children, the Meaning of Work by Marie-Thérèse Letablier 3. Economic Risk, Fertility and the Welfare State: Understanding Individual Rationales by Anne Lise Ellingsæter and Eirin Pedersen 4. Flexible Work: Implications for the Social Meaning of Children by Karin Jurczyk 5. Patterns of Partnership and Parenthood: Experiences, Approaches and Readiness Towards Commitment and Creating a Family by Mai Heide Ottosen and Sofie Skovdal Mouritzen 6. The Cultural Ideal of the Joint Decision: Illuminating Values of Individuality and Relationality of the Child Choice by Malin Noem Ravn and Merete Lie 7. The Non-Modern Child? Ambivalence about Parenthood among Young Adults by Disa Bergnéhr and Eva Bernhardt 8. Rising Fertility, Fewer Fathers: Crossroads of Networks, Gender and Class by An-Magritt Jensen 9. Changing Fertility Behavior across Two Generations: The Role of Gender and Class by Trude Lappegård, Turid Noack and Marit Rønsen 10. From Mothers to Daughters: Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Norms by Laura Bernardi 11. The Social Meaning of Children Embedded in Institutions and Personal Relations by Anne Lise Ellingsæter, An-Magritt Jensen and Merete Lie
Biography
Anne Lise Ellingsæter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo.
An-Magritt Jensen is Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Merete Lie is Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
