Poor Women and Children in the European Past

Poor Women and Children in the European Past PDF Author: John Henderson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415077163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Book Description
Women and children have always featured prominently among the critically disadvantaged.Poor Women and Children in the European Pastprovides a comparative survey of the poverty experienced by women and children in Europe by testing the applicability of the outline of the poverty life-cycle. Among the issues raised in a perceptive and wide-ranging introduction by the editors, John Henderson and Richard Wall, are the distinctive nature of women's poverty over the life-cycle, the relationship between family and demographic systems and the level of poverty, and the relative generosity of public and private charity provided by a range of European societies.