Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860–1940

Simon Szreter

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511582240

This book offers an original interpretation of the history of falling fertilities in Britain between 1860 and 1940. It integrates the approaches of the social sciences and of demographic, feminist, and labour history with intellectual, social, and political history. It exposes the conceptual and statistical inadequacies of the orthodox picture of a national, unitary class-differential fertility decline, and presents an entirely new analysis of the famous 1911 fertility census of England and Wales. Surprising and important findings emerge concerning the principal methods of birth control: births were spaced from early on in marriage; and sexual abstinence by married couples was a far more significant practice than previously imagined. The author presents a new general approach to the study of fertility change, raising central issues concerning the relationship between history and social science.

‘… required reading for anyone interested in the still unresolved debate over the nature and causes of the origins and process of the modern fertility transition.’

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H - Estimate of the scale of effect of differing infant mortality levels on reported fertility after 7.5 years of marriage
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H - Estimate of the scale of effect of differing infant mortality levels on reported fertility after 7.5 years of marriage
pp 634-635

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pp 636-674

Index
pp 675-704

Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in the Past Time
pp 705-705