ABSTRACT
This book is distinctive in that it studies Mediterranean societies by the yardstick of three major cross-cutting issues whose challenges intermingle: the ageing of populations and its consequences in terms of mutual support relationships between generations in families, the increasing lack of security in adult career trajectories and its consequences as regards gender social roles in the context of a long-term economic crisis and, finally, the role of Nation-States’ public policies in the social reproduction of these gender inequalities. These three issues under study are the keystone of this work for understanding the ongoing transformations in lifestyles and life cycles in Mediterranean societies.
