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Emiko Ochiai Editor

The Editors: Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux is Maître de Conférences at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre de Recherches Historiques/CNRS, Paris (France), where she teaches History of the Family. She was a researcher at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, associate Professor at University of Montréal, Canada, and is currently honorary Professor at National University of Salta, Argentina. As a social historian and historical demographer, she has edited several books and published numerous essays on the history of the family, Malthusianism, female migration, gender studies and social change in Europe, and comparative family transmission systems in Eurasia.
Emiko Ochiai is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. She was an Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and was a visiting research fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Her major research field is the historical and comparative sociology of the family and gender. Her book The Japanese Family System in Transition. A Sociological Analysis of Family Change in Postwar Japan was published in Japanese in 1994 and translated into Korean, Chinese and English.