Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe: Britain and Italy Compared

by S. Bernini

Overview

Taking Britain and Italy as comparative cases, the author explores the extent to which dominant notions of family life differed in postwar Britain and Italy and the implications this had on the development of family policy in these two countries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349541782
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/13/2007
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

STEFANIA BERNINI has held post-doctoral positions at the Open University and St Antony's College, Oxford, UK. She is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and a Visiting Lecturer in the History of Science at the University of Florence, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Family, State and Democratic Development in Britain and Italy The Family in the Political Debate Moral and Scientific Discussions The Edges of the Family: State, Citizens and the 'Children Deprived of a Normal Home Life' Recreating the Family: Single Mothers, Maladjusted Children and the Search for a New Home Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index