Discourses versus Life Courses

摘要: This article combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to study the effect of rural-urban migration on sexual behavior servants in nineteenth- early-twentieth-century Flanders. In part, I compare various discourses servants' extramarital sketch ideological context which affected women's agency. Contemporaries were commonly convinced that urban more often became pregnant out-of-wedlock than other women, but disagreed causes for this: vulnerability or immorality. use life course determine differences behavioral patterns women who never servants. Looking both at fertility marriage behavior, argue slightly risk-taking when entering into relationships. With this mixed-methods approach, avoids one-dimensional readings sources, challenge dichotomous concepts are too basic comprehend complexity behavior.