Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Matter of Free Choice? Some Structural and Cultural Influences on the Decision to Have or Not to Have Children in Norway -- 3 "Now It is Completely the Other Way Around": Political Economics of Fertility in Re-unified Germany -- 4 "Our Nation is Dying": Interpreting Patterns of Childbearing in Post-Soviet Russia -- 5 The Economy of Birthrates in the Czech Republic -- 6 A Quest for Belonging: The Bulgarian Demographic Crisis, Emigration and the Postsocialist Generations -- 7 Underfertility's Challenge to Family and Gender Relations in Urban Greece -- 8 "Toys and Perfumes": Imploding Italy's Population Paradox and Motherly Myths -- 9 "We're Fine at Home": Young People, Family and Low Fertility in Spain -- 10 Making Family: Depopulation and Social Crisis in France -- 11 Bodies Coming and Going: Women and Fertility in Postmodern Ireland -- 12 A Reflection on Barren States: The Demographic Paradoxes of Consumer Capitalism -- Index.
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