Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare Ruptures and Trajectories in Postwar Europe. Introduction

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Published: Apr 15, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.35027
Keywords:
mixed economy of welfare Gender Europe postwar
Efi Avdela
University of Crete
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0225-5851
Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4997-8627
Dimitra Lampropoulou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4007-9529
Abstract

The Introduction explains the usefulness of the term “mixed economy of welfare”, the crucial role of gender in its formation and the different meanings of “postwar” in the national case studies included in the special issue. It also previews the six articles of the issue and highlights the often unexpected similarities between them.

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Author Biographies
Efi Avdela, University of Crete

Efi Avdela is Professor Emerita at the University of Crete. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the twentieth century, particularly in the areas of gender, feminism, crime, violence and criminal justice, youth, sexuality and voluntary associations. She has led and contributed to numerous collaborative research projects and has a substantial publication record in multiple languages. Currently, her research delves into postwar collective actions within the framework of the mixed economy of welfare, as well as exploring the history of penal jurors.

Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Trinity College Dublin

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is the Professor of Contemporary Irish History at the School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin. She has researched and published widely on modern Irish history with a particular focus on poverty, welfare, gender, sexuality, health and vulnerable and marginalised groups. Most recently she has co-authored a history of Ireland’s abortion journey with Professor Diane Urquhart of Queen’s University Belfast, The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920–2018 (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her other publications include Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920–1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922–60 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007). She narrated and co-authored the documentary Forgotten: The Widows of the Irish Revolution (RTÉ One, May 2022).

Dimitra Lampropoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Dimitra Lampropoulou is Assistant Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her primary research interests encompass the history of the twentieth century, with a focus on the history of youth, education, social movements, welfare, labor history, oral history, and memory. She has published books and articles in Greek and English and has actively participated in numerous interdisciplinary research projects in Greece and the European Union. Her recent research projects explore night schooling and the students’ movement in postwar Greece, as well as the mixed economy of welfare during the same period. She is a founding member of the Greek Oral History Association and a member of the Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI), the journal Historein, and the European Labour History Network (ELHN).

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