Umeå universitets logga

umu.sePublikationer
Ändra sökning
RefereraExporteraLänk till posten
Permanent länk

Direktlänk
Referera
Referensformat
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Annat format
Fler format
Språk
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Annat språk
Fler språk
Utmatningsformat
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Disabled and unmarried?: Marital chances among disabled people in nineteenth-century northern Sweden
Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier. Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Enheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR).
Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier. Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Enheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR). (DISLIFE ; DISMAW ; Arcum)ORCID-id: 0000-0001-9042-9166
Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, Statistik. Umeå universitet, Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Enheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR). (DISLIFE)
2017 (Engelska)Ingår i: Essays in Economic & Business History, ISSN 0896-226X, Vol. 35, nr 1, s. 207-238Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

To marry and form a household of one's own was the expected life course of most people in the nineteenth century, but little is known about whether individuals with disabilities shared the same demographic experience of marriage as non-disabled did. This study examines this issue by analyzing the marital chances of a group of disabled people—i.e. blind, deaf mute, crippled and with mental disabilities—compared with a non-disabled reference group. Our results show that about a quarter of the disabled individuals did marry, even though their marital propensities were significantly lower than those of non-disabled people. These propensities also differed by gender and type of disability. We suggest that the lower marital chances and the variation we found within the group of disabled people indicate the level of social exclusion they faced in society.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
2017. Vol. 35, nr 1, s. 207-238
Nationell ämneskategori
Historia
Forskningsämne
historisk demografi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-130423OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-130423DiVA, id: diva2:1066908
Projekt
DISMAW
Ingår i projekt
Liveable disabilities: Life courses and opportunity structures across time, Europeiska unionen – Horizon 2020
Forskningsfinansiär
EU, Horisont 2020, 647125Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs minnesfond, 2012.0141
Anmärkning

Originally published in thesis in manuscript form.

Tillgänglig från: 2017-01-19 Skapad: 2017-01-19 Senast uppdaterad: 2020-05-07Bibliografiskt granskad
Ingår i avhandling
1. Disability in individual life and past society: life-course perspectives of people with disabilities in the Sundsvall region of Sweden in the nineteenth century
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Disability in individual life and past society: life-course perspectives of people with disabilities in the Sundsvall region of Sweden in the nineteenth century
2017 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
Abstract [en]

What did a life with disability imply for individuals in a past society? Since disabled men and women have long been hidden in history, the aim with this thesis is to uncover them and their living conditions in nineteenth-century Sweden, represented by the Sundsvall region. The data consist of parish registers, which help to trace people’s life courses and the consequences if disabilities interfered with their lives. These records are digitized and stored by the Demographic Data Base (DDB), Umeå University, Sweden. The dataset under analysis comprises a population of some 36,000 observations from non-disabled and disabled individuals. Life-course perspectives and labeling theories are applied in all four studies in this thesis, even if different methods and events in life are taken into account. Studies II and IV examine the marriage propensities and the spouses, and show that disabled people did marry, and usually with a non-disabled partner in similar age and from similar socio-economic origin. However their marital chances were significantly smaller compared to their non-disabled counterparts. Study I reveals that disabilities implied significantly higher death risks, in particular among the men and those with mental disabilities of both genders. In Study III, the three events of getting a job, marrying and giving birth to a child were explored in parallel. The results reveal that even if some disabled people experienced all these events, they did so to a lower extent than non-disabled persons. Variations were found between men and women and different disabilities. The major conclusion of the thesis is that disabled people constituted a most heterogeneous group of individuals with different obstacles and opportunities in life in a past society, where gender and type of disability seem to have played a part in their level of labeling beyond the impairment itself. 

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Umeå: Umeå universitet, 2017. s. 154
Serie
Report from the Demographic Data Base, ISSN 0349-5132 ; 33
Nyckelord
disability, nineteenth century, marriage, mortality, partner selection, life course, event history analysis, sequence analysis, gender, Sweden
Nationell ämneskategori
Historia
Forskningsämne
historisk demografi; historia
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-130333 (URN)978-91-7601-648-0 (ISBN)
Disputation
2017-02-10, Hörsal E, Humanisthuset, Umeå, 09:30 (Engelska)
Opponent
Handledare
Tillgänglig från: 2017-01-20 Skapad: 2017-01-17 Senast uppdaterad: 2018-06-09Bibliografiskt granskad

Open Access i DiVA

fulltext(897 kB)266 nedladdningar
Filinformation
Filnamn FULLTEXT01.pdfFilstorlek 897 kBChecksumma SHA-512
7622bbd0992c354b3e675118d922fb3383ecba7331aa74a6832219ac03d6db94c3afa96c61539c85dad2c503842c74cf33bc98abcb300f7efeb0509e72c293dc
Typ fulltextMimetyp application/pdf

Övriga länkar

URL

Person

Haage, HelenaVikström, LottaHäggström Lundevaller, Erling

Sök vidare i DiVA

Av författaren/redaktören
Haage, HelenaVikström, LottaHäggström Lundevaller, Erling
Av organisationen
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierEnheten för demografi och åldrandeforskning (CEDAR)Statistik
Historia

Sök vidare utanför DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Totalt: 267 nedladdningar
Antalet nedladdningar är summan av nedladdningar för alla fulltexter. Det kan inkludera t.ex tidigare versioner som nu inte längre är tillgängliga.

urn-nbn

Altmetricpoäng

urn-nbn
Totalt: 1273 träffar
RefereraExporteraLänk till posten
Permanent länk

Direktlänk
Referera
Referensformat
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Annat format
Fler format
Språk
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Annat språk
Fler språk
Utmatningsformat
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf