{"product_id":"9781349541782","title":"Family Life and Individual Welfare in Post-war Europe: Britain and Italy Compared","description":"What makes a family? As traditional definitions of what constitute a family seem to be increasingly challenged in public debates, Stefania Bernini explores which factors were most influential in shaping dominant notions of family life in the post-war period. Taking Britain and Italy as comparative cases, she shows how in both countries the family was used in the post-war period as a privileged means of pursuing political interests, partly as a consequence of the new political landscape created by the emergence of the welfare state. However, approaches to the regulation of family life ultimately diverged in Italy and Britain, as a result of long-established cultural differences and contingent political factors. The book identifies the main areas in which this divergence was apparent, and discusses the long-term consequences of the different routes followed by the two countries after the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefania Bernini has held post-doctoral positions at the Open University, St Antony's College, Oxford, and the European University Institute in Florence. She is currently a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Institute of Social Policy, University of Warsaw\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47038671651056,"sku":"9781349541782","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781349541782_p0.jpg?v=1763711368","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781349541782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}