Poor Women and Children in the European Past

• Author(s): John Henderson, Richard Wall,
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Pages: 347
• ISBN_10: 0415077168
  ISBN_13: 9780415077163
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , History / Europe / General , History / Social History , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare , Social Science / Women's Studies , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness , Social Science / Children's Studies ,

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.