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Book Reviews Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre, and John Eriksen, eds., Gender and Well-Being: The Role of Institutions, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, 290 pp., £60.00 (hb), ISBN 978-1-4094-0705-8. Book Review by Yulia Gradskova University of Stockholm, Sweden This book—which is the fourth in a series of volumes published under the general heading Gender and Well-Being—starts by defining welfare state, market, and family as the three important elements that influence the provision of basic human needs in contemporary society. However, the editors of this anthology have chosen a more complex perspective on gender relationships in institutional frameworks: well-being, a category involving also the subjective side—“freedom to promote or achieve func- tionings” (7). The lasts are defined as “valuable beings and doings in an individu - als’ life, such as a healthy body, being literate or having a decent job”. The chapters included in the volume are based on papers presented at the Symposium on Gender and Well-being that took place in Madrid in 2008 and deal with a number of European countries, particularly those in the Mediterranean. The anthology consists of three sec- tions dedicated to care, work, and the general issues of gender and welfare regimes. The common methodology is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aspasia Berghahn Books

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Elisabetta Addis, Paloma de Villota, Florence Degavre, and John Eriksen, eds., Gender and Well-Being: The Role of Institutions, Farnham: Ashgate, 2011, 290 pp., £60.00 (hb), ISBN 978-1-4094-0705-8. Book Review by Yulia Gradskova University of Stockholm, Sweden This book—which is the fourth in a series of volumes published under the general heading Gender and Well-Being—starts by defining welfare state, market, and family as the three important elements that influence the provision of basic human needs in contemporary society. However, the editors of this anthology have chosen a more complex perspective on gender relationships in institutional frameworks: well-being, a category involving also the subjective side—“freedom to promote or achieve func- tionings” (7). The lasts are defined as “valuable beings and doings in an individu - als’ life, such as a healthy body, being literate or having a decent job”. The chapters included in the volume are based on papers presented at the Symposium on Gender and Well-being that took place in Madrid in 2008 and deal with a number of European countries, particularly those in the Mediterranean. The anthology consists of three sec- tions dedicated to care, work, and the general issues of gender and welfare regimes. The common methodology is

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