Gender and Well-Being in Europe

Bernard Harris is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde. He has published widely in areas relating to the history of health and well-being and the history of social policy. He has edited or coedited books on Race, science and medicine 1700-1960 (Routledge, 1999), Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America (Routledge, 2007), Gender and wellbeing in historical and comparative perspective (Ashgate, 2009), and Welfare and old age (Pickering and Chatto, 2012). He has also authored or co-authored books on The health of the schoolchild (Open University Press, 1995), The origins of the British welfare state (Palgrave, 2004), and The changing body: health, nutrition and human development in the western world since 1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He is due to become one of three co-editors of the Voluntary Sector Review in 2015. Lina Gálvez Muñoz is Professor of Economic History at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain, and a member of the Economic History Research Institute Laureano Figuerola at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Business History at the University of Reading, UK. Her most recent book is Estadísticas Historicas del Mercado de Trabajo en Andalucía (2006), and she has co-edited a number of books and special journal issues, including Managing Foreign Companies in the United States (2004). Helena Machado is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minho, Portugal, and Deputy Director of the university's Sociology Research Unit. She is the author of Moralizing Maternity, Biologizing Paternity (forthcoming) and the Handbook of Sociology of Crime (forthcoming), and she is the co-editor of Scientific Proofs and International Justice: the Future for Scientific Standards in Global Environmental Protection and International Trade (2005).

'This fine book offers an important contribution to our understanding of the many dimensions of well-being. The historical and contemporary studies in this volume demonstrate that for a proper understanding of human well-being, we have to pay due attention to gender issues. Students, scholars and policy makers across the social sciences and humanities will find this a valuable collection.' Ingrid Robeyns, Erasmus University, The Netherlands 'This collection explores the impact of economic and social change on male and female lives. Inspired by Amartya Sen's influential critique of traditional indicators of well-being, the authors bring fresh ideas to his capability perspective. The contributors display practical experience, deep historical understanding and a willingness to talk across time, space, and disciplines. The result will be of great value to researchers in this hugely important field.' Jane Humphries, University of Oxford, UK

• 1: Gender and Well-Being from the Historical and Contemporary Perspective; I: Gender and Well-Being in the European Past; 2: Gender-based Economic Inequalities and Women's Perceptions of Well-Being in Historical Populations; 3: Measuring Gender Well-Being with Biological Welfare Indicators; 4: Anthropometric History, Gender and the Measurement of Well-Being; 5: Gender and Well-Being in the Pyrenean Stem Family System; 6: Overexploitation, Malnutrition and Stigma in a Woman's Illness; 7: Changing Terms of Well-Being; II: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Well-Being; 8: A Proposal for a Discrimination Index for a Non-neutral Fiscal Policy; 9: Violent Crime, Gender Inequalities and Well-Being; 10: Beyond Equality; 11: Living and Working Conditions; 12: Incomplete Women and Strong Men – Accounts of Infertility as a Gendered Construction of Well-Being; 13: Time to Do and Time to Be? The Use of Residual Time as a Gendered Indicator of Well-Being; 14: Summary and Conclusions