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Thursday, November 21
B5 Thursday, 10:15am – 12:15pm Clark 7
Demographic Constraints on Family Structure and Coresidence: New Agenda
For Historical Family Demography
FAMILY/DEMOGRAPHY, Economics, Historical Geography
Chair: Siegfried Gruber, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
(Historical Demography)
Ethnographic Evidence of How China's Rural Daughters Use Historical Customs to
Negotiate Contemporary Living Arrangements
Lai Tso, University of Michigan (Sociology and Women's Studies)
Regional Variation of Intergenerational Co-Residence before the Great
Transformation: Demography and Economy Revisited
Arne Solli, University of Bergen (History)
The Irish Stem Family at the Early Twentieth Century in Reference to the
Patriarchal Head and His Heir
Yoshifumi Shimizu, Momoyama Gakuin University (Sociology)
Discussant: Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota (Minnesota Population
Center)
B6 Thursday, 10:15am – 12:15pm Clark 5
Changing Conceptions and Definitions of Health, II
HEALTH/MEDICINE/BODY
Chair: Lucinda M. McCray, Appalachian State University (History)
Simmel's Cyclical Vision of Health and Medicine
Daniel Menchik, Michigan State University (Sociology)
Health and Fatness
Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen, University of Copenhagen (The Saxo Institute,
History)
The Invention of the Psychopathic Girl: From a Social to a Psychiatric Perspective
on Girls in Asylums
Bolette Frydendahl Larsen, Lund University (History)
Discussant: Anders Ottosson, Gothenburg University (Historical Studies)
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