Prosperity and Parenthood

A Study of Family Planning among the Victorian Middle Classes
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-86261-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First Published in 1954, Prosperity and Parenthood is a study of Victorian middle-class ideas about the standard of living, marriage, and the responsibilities of family life. The book begins by tracing the fall in fertility in the 1870s to a change in the middle-class conception of parenthood and goes on to show that the standard of living considerably expanded during the period of great prosperity, roughly 1850 to 1870.

The author also gives a detailed study of what the middle classes considered appropriate for a civilized existence and ends by considering the “Great Depression” as a possible factor attacking the actual level of living and making it possible for the middle classes to maintain established standards only by cutting down the size of their families. This is an important historical reference work for students and scholars of sociology, sociology of family, British sociology, social history, and medical sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, J A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements 1. The Decline in Fertility 2. The Population Controversy 3. The ‘Proper’ Time to Marry 4. The Pattern of Expenditure 5. Domestic Assistance 6. The Paraphernalia of Gentility 7. Incomes 8. A Case Study- Anthony Trollope 9. The Eighteen Seventies and After 10. Birth Control and the Size of the Family 11. The Cost of Children 12. The Standard of Living and the Fall in Fertility Appendices Notes Subject Index Index of Persons, Organizations, Sources, etc.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Ambrose Banks sociologist, born January 5, 1920; died November 13, 2005. He was the leading authority of his generation on the Victorian family and its rapid reduction in size. At the time of the publication of this book, he was at the University of Liverpool, the Department of social science.