Genders in the Life Course

From the reviews: "This volume ... is a most welcome contribution to the research literature. ... This book could grace any sociologist's book shelf. It would strongly benefit demographers to be exposed to these fine-grained analyses ... . It is also useful to comparative international research. The sophistication of the analytical approaches ... could be useful in a senior demography course, or certainly in a graduate course." (Susan A, McDaniel, Canadian Studies in Population, Vol. 36 (1-2), Spring/Summer, 2009)

• Preface: Eva Bernhardt,- Introduction: A. Pinnelli, F. Racioppi, R. Rettaroli,- Chapter 1: The gender system in developed countries: macro and micro evidence, P. Di Giulio, A Pinnelli,- Chapter 2: Age at first sexual intercourse, L. Coppola,- Chapter 3: The formation of the first partnership: the role of education and employment: R. Impicciatore, R. Rettaroli,- Chapter 4: Ideational factors and choices of life as a couple, L. Pasquini, A. Samoggia,- Chapter 5: Gender and the differential fertility, A. Pinnelli, P. Di Giulio,- Chapter 6: The new role of the father, P. Di Giulio, S. Carrozza,- Chapter 7: Gender and first union dissolution, A. De Rose, M. Di Cesare,- Chapter 8: Women and men after the first union dissolution, A. Angeli, A. De Rose,- Chapter 9: Gender and migration: two cases studies, P. Farina, L. Terzera,- Chapter 10: Gender and support of older unmarried people in Italy and Britain, C. Tomassini, K. Glaser,- Chapter 11: Male excess mortality between biology and culture, A. Nobil,- Appendix. Gender studies in demography: data, methods and lines of research, Antonella Pinnelli, Alberto Cazzola, Alessandra De Rose, Paola Di Giulio, Patrizia Farina, Cristina Freguja, Filomena Racioppi and Cecilia Tomassini,- Notes,- References.