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The Gender Revolution: Marriage, Fertility, and Divorce in the Industrial City

Quaranta, Luciana LU and Stanfors, Maria LU (2024) p.170-212
Abstract
This chapter focuses on industrialization and family behavior during the twentieth century against the backdrop of economic and institutional change. It documents trends regarding marriage and fertility and union dissolution from a gender perspective, and explores the role of socioeconomic status (SES) for these processes. Findings confirm patterns regarding gender and family consistent with that previously indicated at the national level. Throughout the century, Landskrona outpaced the rural parishes in adopting new demographic behavior. The period 1940–1970 was marked by strong family norms, distinct gender roles, and economic conditions enabling family formation for all, irrespective of SES, and at young ages. During this period divorce... (More)
This chapter focuses on industrialization and family behavior during the twentieth century against the backdrop of economic and institutional change. It documents trends regarding marriage and fertility and union dissolution from a gender perspective, and explores the role of socioeconomic status (SES) for these processes. Findings confirm patterns regarding gender and family consistent with that previously indicated at the national level. Throughout the century, Landskrona outpaced the rural parishes in adopting new demographic behavior. The period 1940–1970 was marked by strong family norms, distinct gender roles, and economic conditions enabling family formation for all, irrespective of SES, and at young ages. During this period divorce expanded across the population. In the 1970s, what had been normative became subject to free choice, resulting in increasing cohabitation and single living, while marriage decreased, childbearing was separated from marriage, and divorce became the common way for marriage to end. (Less)
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marriage, fertility, divorce, gender
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Urban Lives : An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century - An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century
editor
Dribe, Martin ; Nilsson, Therese and Tegunimataka, Anna
pages
170 - 212
publisher
Oxford University Press
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  • scopus:85190985802
ISBN
9780197761090
9780197761120
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780197761090.003.0006
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Landskrona Population Study
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English
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  author       = {{Quaranta, Luciana and Stanfors, Maria}},
  booktitle    = {{Urban Lives : An Industrial City and Its People During the Twentieth Century}},
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  keywords     = {{marriage; fertility; divorce; gender}},
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  title        = {{The Gender Revolution: Marriage, Fertility, and Divorce in the Industrial City}},
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  doi          = {{10.1093/oso/9780197761090.003.0006}},
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