1st Edition
Ageing, Lifestyles and Economic Crises The New People of the Mediterranean
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Mediterranean area: a total social context
Thierry Blöss
Part 1: Mediterranean disparities and convergences: the demographic order in question
Introduction: Population ageing: convergences and uncertainties in the Mediterranean
Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Elena Ambrosetti, Sébastien Oliveau
Chapter 1: An overview of demographic ageing in Italy: past, present and expected evolution
Giorgia Capacci and Francesca Rinesi
Chapter 2: Demographic transitions, ageing and the ‘great recession’ in Spain
Francisco Zamora López, Noelia Camara, Laura Barrios, Alain Parant, Margarita Delgado
Chapter 3: From multifaceted transition to rapid ageing: Morocco at the dawn of a new era
Muriel Sajoux
Chapter 4: Half a century of ageing in France: dynamics and specificities of the mediterranean coastline
Yoann Doignon, Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Sébastien Oliveau
Part II: Contours of familial solidarities and change in multigenerational societies in the Mediterranean
Introduction: 'The problem' of family solidarities in mediterranean societies
Thierry Blöss and Michèle Pagès
Chapter 5: Public policies towards the family in Italy: an analysis of the evolution of the italian welfare state and its impact on gender and generations
Elena Ambrosetti and Donatella Strangio
Chapter 6: Households of the elderly in Spain: between solitude and family solidarities
Francisco Zamora López, Laura Barrios, Irene Lebrusan, Alain Parant, Margarita Delgado
Chapter 7: Family solidarities and old age in Morocco: new realities, new challenges
Muriel Sajoux and Mohammed Amar
Chapter 8: Family mutual support in multigenerational France. Social classes, generations and gender: memberships in question
Thierry Blöss, Isabelle Blöss-Widmer, Michèle Pagès
Part III: Uncertainties in gender relations in the Mediterranean: social trajectories and modes of political regulation
Introduction: Age, gender and social trajectories: the uneven emancipation of women in mediterranean societies
Thierry Blöss and Elena Ambrosetti
Chapter 9: The gender gap at home and in the labour market: the case of Italy
Serena Arima, Pietro Demurtas, Alessandra De Rose, Maria Herica La Valle, Adele Menniti, Maria Rita Sebastiani
Chapter 10: Gender inequalities, paid work and family formation in Spain
Marta Domínguez Folgueras, María José González, Irene Lapuerta
Chapter 11: Morocco between women’s emancipation and reproduction of gender inequalities
Mohammed Amar and Ilham Dkhissi
Chapter 12: Work-life balance through the lens of the dynamics of individualisation in France
Valeria Insarauto
Index
Biography
Thierry Blöss is a Full Professor at Aix Marseille University and researcher at the Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology (CNRS). He is also the academic leader of the international programme ANR SODEMOMED, from which this book stems.
