Genders in the Life Course

<P>Preface: Eva Bernhardt.- Introduction: A. Pinnelli, F. Racioppi, R. Rettaroli.- Chapter 1: The gender system in developed countries: macro and micro evidence, P. Di Giulio, A Pinnelli.- Chapter 2: Age at first sexual intercourse, L. Coppola.- Chapter 3: The formation of the first partnership: the role of education and employment: R. Impicciatore, R. Rettaroli.- Chapter 4: Ideational factors and choices of life as a couple, L. Pasquini, A. Samoggia.- Chapter 5: Gender and the differential fertility, A. Pinnelli, P. Di Giulio.- Chapter 6: The new role of the father, P. Di Giulio, S. Carrozza.- Chapter 7: Gender and first union dissolution, A. De Rose, M. Di Cesare.- Chapter 8: Women and men after the first union dissolution, A. Angeli, A. De Rose.- Chapter 9: Gender and migration: two cases studies, P. Farina, L. Terzera.- Chapter 10: Gender and support of older unmarried people in Italy and Britain, C. Tomassini, K. Glaser.- Chapter 11: Male excess mortality between biology and culture, A. Nobil.- Appendix. Gender studies in demography: data, methods and lines of research, Antonella Pinnelli, Alberto Cazzola, Alessandra De Rose, Paola Di Giulio, Patrizia Farina, Cristina Freguja, Filomena Racioppi and Cecilia Tomassini.- Notes.- References.</P>