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Vivere in Friuli: saggi di demografia storica ; secc. 16.-19
In: Storia economia e società in Friuli 2
Female family heads in fascist Italy: a study of the 1931 population census
In: The history of the family: an international quarterly, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 125-144
ISSN: 1081-602X
Mortalité maternelle en Italie. Évolution et différences territoriales, 1887-1955
In: Annales de démographie historique: ADH, Band 139, Heft 1, S. 91-110
ISSN: 1776-2774
Les différences régionales ont toujours été présentes dans l'histoire socioéconomique de l'Italie, et elles ont profondément marqué la démographie de chaque région. La mortalité maternelle compte parmi ces différences, dans son rapport aux dépenses de santé publique, aux sages femmes, au rôle social de la femme, à l'analphabétisme et l'incroyance en la science médicale, et au statut socioéconomique. Le but de cet article est précisément d'éclairer les différentiels régionaux de mortalité maternelle en Italie entre 1887 et 1955, ainsi que leur rôle dans le déclin d'un tel phénomène. L'analyse utilise les statistiques officielles sur les causes de décès ; ces statistiques commencent à couvrir tout le territoire national en 1887. L'étude montre que les régions italiennes du Sud présentent les plus faibles valeur de mortalité maternelle, surtout au début de la période étudiée, probablement à cause du taux d'emploi féminin dans les industries, inférieur à celui des régions du Nord, et à cause d'une tendance plus forte à l'accouchement à domicile, qui peut réduire le risque d'infections, étant donné les très forts taux de mortalité due à cette cause documentés dans les maternités avant l'introduction de techniques antiseptiques.
Living alone in nineteenth-century rural Italy: was there any way out?
In: Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 411-435
ISSN: 1469-218X
AbstractFew studies have dealt with the issue of people living alone in pretransitional rural populations. Alone by choice or circumstances, usually poor and sometimes stigmatised, solitaries often had a hard life. This article analyses the characteristics and life-histories of people living alone in two rural villages in nineteenth-century Italy with the aim of understanding whether and how solitaries managed to find a way out from solitude. The results show that solitaries got married, joined another household, and especially emigrated more than the rest of the population, which is a strong indication of their willingness to break out of solitariness. The individuation of the demographic profile associated with such specific behaviours, namely being male, young, and widowed, allowed us also to draw some hypotheses on the role of availability and quality of social connections on the chances to escape from a solitary condition, as well as on the characteristics of migratory flows of solitaries from the countryside to the cities.
Superstitions surrounding the choice of wedding date in Italy: What has changed since the beginning of the economic development process to the present?
In: Journal of population research, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 45-78
ISSN: 1835-9469
Living Arrangements and the Elderly: An Analysis of Old-Age Mortality by Household Structure in Casalguidi, 1819–1859
In: Demography, Band 50, Heft 5, S. 1593-1613
ISSN: 1533-7790
AbstractThe elevated levels of protection, assistance, and care enjoyed by the elderly living in complex households has long been a key assumption of many family system theories. However, although this hypothesis has been demonstrated for contemporary contexts, quantitative evidence for past populations is particularly scarce, if not nonexistent. This article investigates the relationship between old-age mortality and living arrangements in a mid–nineteenth century Tuscan population, where the joint family system of sharecroppers coexisted alongside the nuclear system of day laborers. Our findings demonstrate that within complex households, the complexity of relationships, gender inequalities, and possible competition for care and resources among the most vulnerable household members—namely, the elderly and the young—weakens the assumption that the elderly benefitted from lower rates of old-age mortality.