Download or read book Gender and Well-being in Europe written by Bernard Harris and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws on both historical and contemporary European case-studies to offer a sophisticated account of the relationship between gender and well-being. The authors focus on key discussions of the changing conceptions of well-being from early twentieth century calculations of the relationship between income and the cost-of-living, to more recent critiques from feminist writers. Their findings will be of considerable interest to Sociologists of Health, Gender, Sexuality and Economics.