Angélique Janssens

Biographic Data

ID3811253
NAMEAngélique Janssens
GIVEN NAMESAngélique
FAMILY NAMEJanssens
SIGNATUREJANSSENS A
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of History, Art History and Classics, of the Radboud University in Nijmegen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS24
TOTAL CITATIONS68
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Tracing the missing pieces of the puzzle: How individual cause-of-death data can break through unresolved debates on historical and contemporary health issues

    Open AccessPaul Puschmann, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2026

    Recent public health crises, such as the SARS and Zika outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic, have reinvigorated research into historical health developments, particularly the factors that have driven dramatic increases in life expectancy over the past two centuries. In this context, the fight against infectious diseases has received particular attention. Until recently, however, historical demographers, family historians, and historians of medicin…

  • What was Killing Babies in 19th-Century Europe? Categorising Their Deaths Using ICD10h

    Open AccessA Reid, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEHistorical Life Course Studies2025

    This paper draws together the results from a set of complementary analyses of the causes of infant mortality in eight European port cities in the late 19th century. The deaths were all coded according to ICD10h, with granular codes and a bespoke categorisation for infant deaths. The paper assesses and improves the categorisation of the causes of infant death by considering age and seasonal patterns. We find that while there were similarities in t…

  • Navigeren door de complexiteit van de coronapandemie: Perspectieven vanuit de historische demografie

    Open AccessIsabelle Devos, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLETijdschrift voor Geschiedenis2024

    Navigating the complexities of the Covid-19 pandemic In this contribution, we discuss from the perspective of historical demography how the corona pandemic has led to new research themes and different approaches to existing themes. Examples include the effect of pandemics on social inequalities in mortality and fertility in the short as well as the long run. The corona pandemic has given historical-demographic research additional legitimacy as re…

  • What was Killing Babies in Amsterdam? A Study of Infant Mortality Patterns Using Individual-Level Cause of Death Data, 1856–1904

    Open AccessAngélique Janssens, A A P O Janssens et al.ARTICLEHistorical Life Course Studies2023

    Based on unique individual-level cause of death data, this article presents an analysis of the development of infant mortality and the underlying cause of death pattern in the city of Amsterdam in the period 1856–1904. We contribute to the discussion on the development of infant mortality and its determinants and test the newly-constructed ICD10h coding system. First, our results demonstrate that the ICD10h and groupings of causes worked quite we…

  • The Limits and Possibilities of Cause of Death Categorisation for Understanding Late Nineteenth Century Mortality

    Open AccessAngélique Janssens, A A P O Janssens et al.ARTICLESocial History of Medicine2022

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  • Transitory inequalities: How individual-level cause-specific death data can unravel socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1864–1955

    Open AccessMayra Murkens, Ben Pelzer et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2022Cited by: 2References: 7

    The decline in infant mortality played a crucial role in the health transition in the Western World. This decline among the vulnerable new-borns was however not an evenly dispersed process. Inequalities as a result of regional differences, cultural influences or socioeconomic status shaped the paths towards low mortality rates. The role of socioeconomic status in levels of infant mortality and its decline remain highly debated. In this article, w…

  • Constructing SHiP and an International Historical Coding System for Causes of Death

    Open AccessAngélique Janssens, A A P O JanssensARTICLEHistorical Life Course Studies2021

    SHiP is a network of European researchers studying mortality dynamics in port cities across Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. All members make use of unique individual-level cause-of-death data for roughly the period 1850–1950 which allows the study of mortality to move beyond what was captured in nineteenth-century highly-aggregated national statistics. Apart from registering the individual cause of death, most datasets provide a wealth of …

  • Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812–1962: How stable, behavior-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity

    Rick J Mourits, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEAnnales de Démographie Historique2021

    Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …

  • Spatial clustering of longevity in a Dutch province, 1812-1962: How stable, behaviour-associated environmental characteristics explain the local clustering of longevity

    Rick J Mourits, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEAnnales de Démographie Historique2021

    Nous cherchons à identifier les facteurs qui influent sur les regroupements spatiaux de longévité, et qui permettent de repérer si les avantages en termes de survie interviennent à une période précoce de l’existence ou plus tard, ou encore tout au long de l’existence. Pour reconstruire la vie d’une cohorte d’habitants de la Zélande nés entre 1812 et 1862, nous nous appuyons sur les données de mortalité reconstituées pour une période de 150 ans à …

  • Introduction: Disability, partnership, and family across time and space

    Open AccessLotta Vikström, Sonali Shah et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2020Cited by: 2References: 23

    Notions of family life and romantic partnership, like notions of disability, have been culturally constructed and socially produced over historical time, and our understandings of these notions are being continually challenged and re-negotiated across time and space. Policies, institutions, and cultural practices across the globe have brought about changes to the construction of the family and to the rights and inclusion of disabled people in pri…

  • The Long Harm of Childhood: Childhood Exposure to Mortality and Subsequent Risk of Adult Mortality in Utah and The Netherlands

    Open AccessIngrid K Van Dijk, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Population /…2019Cited by: 4References: 39

    How do early-life conditions affect adult mortality? Research has yielded mixed evidence about the influence of infant and child mortality in birth cohorts on adult health and mortality. Studies rarely consider the specific role of mortality within the family. We estimated how individuals' exposure to mortality as a child is related to their adult mortality risk between ages 18 and 85 in two historical populations, Utah (USA) 1874-2015 and Zeelan…

  • Labouring Lives: Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880-1960

    Angélique JanssensBOOKLabouring Lives2014

  • Did Factory Girls Make Bad Mothers? Women's Labor Market Experience, Motherhood, and Children's Mortality Risks in the Past

    Angélique Janssens, A A P O Janssens et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2012Cited by: 2References: 10

    Prior research has suggested that the quality of maternal care given to infants and small children plays an important role in the strong clustering of children's deaths. In this article, we investigate the quality of maternal care provided by those women who most nineteenth-century social commentators declared would never make good housewives or mothers: the young girls and women working in textile mills. We carried out this examination using an …

  • Clustering of Deaths in Families: Infant and Child Mortality in Historical Perspective

    Edvinsson, Sören Edvinsson et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2012Cited by: 3References: 20

    This introduction surveys the field of family clustering of deaths and discusses the contributions in this special issue. The main focus is on mortality in historical contexts. Clustering of deaths in families has been found both in historical and contemporary populations, and we argue that the 'family approach' to infant and child mortality yields important and interesting insights for our understanding of different mortality patterns and the mo…

  • Complicating Categories: Gender, Class, Race and Ethnicity

    Eileen Boris, Angélique JanssensBOOKComplicating Categories2010

  • Faulty genes or faulty parents? Gender, family and survival in early and late childhood in the Netherlands, 1860–1900

    Angélique Janssens, A A P O Janssens et al.ARTICLEThe History of the Family2010Cited by: 6References: 3

    According to the famous economist and Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen women have a significant biological advantage over men. Despite this fact women do not always live longer. In today's third world, but also in some areas in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century we find so-called excess female mortality. In this paper we examine child mortality in The Netherlands in general and gendered patterns of child mortality i…

  • Were women present at the demographic transition?’ A question revisited

    Angélique Janssens, A A P O JanssensARTICLEThe History of the Family2007Cited by: 5References: 1

    In this contribution I argue that the future of historical demography has much to gain from the incorporation of women and gender into research on the (first) fertility decline in the Western world. Gender, as an explanatory concept, can help construct more complex models for fertility decline in which economic, social and cultural explanations can be connected and which are more sensitive to diversity, to historical context, and to contingency. …

  • Complicating Categories: An Introduction

    Open AccessE Boris, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1999Cited by: 5References: 14

    This 1999 Supplement of the International Review of Social History focuses on complicating central concepts in the understanding of economic and social history: class, gender, race and ethnicity. In concentrating on industrial workers, their politics, and institutions, labor and working-class history had tended to ignore gender, race, and ethnicity as discursive and material forces. It discussed the woman or black or immigrant worker as a subset …

  • Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dualearner Marriages

    Angélique Janssens, A A P O Janssens et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1999

  • The rise and decline of the male breadwinner family: Studies in Gendered Patterns of Labour Division and Household Organisation

    Open AccessA A P O Janssens, Angélique JanssensBOOKRise and Decline of the Male…1997

    1. The rise and decline of the male breadwinner family? An overview of the debate Angelique Janssens 2. The origins and expansion of the male breadwinner family: the case of nineteenth-century Britain Sarah Horrell and Jane Humphries 3. Gendered exclusion: domesticity and dependence in Bengal Samita Sen 4. Breadwinning patterns and family exogenous factors: workers at the tobacco factory of Seville during the industrialization process, 1887-1945 …

  • The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family? An Overview of the Debate

    Open AccessAngélique Janssens, A A P O JanssensARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1997Cited by: 36References: 4

    In recent years feminist scholars have called for a complete rethinking and revision of the foundations of labour history as a necessary prerequisite for the integration of gender as a core concept into histories of labour and social class. In this attempt one of the most deeply rooted assumptions in male-oriented labour history needs to be identified and made subject to careful rethinking, namely the assumption that the public and the private sp…

  • Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community

    Open AccessBonnie Fox, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1996Cited by: 1

  • Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community

    D S Smith, Angélique Janssens et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1996

    This book is a quantitative study into the influence of the process of industrialisation on the nature and strength of family relationships in a Dutch community between 1850 and 1920. The study makes use of the unique and unusually rich source of Dutch population registers, which enables the author to trace the history of individual households. The study closely relates aspects of family and household with the social processes characteristic of a…

  • Industrialization without Family Change? The Extended Family and the Life Cycle in a Dutch Industrial Town, 1880-1920

    Open AccessAngélique Janssens, A A P O JanssensARTICLEJournal of Family History1986Cited by: 2References: 20

    This article examines the structural evolution over the life-cycle of a cohort group ofparental households in the industrial town of Tilburg during theperiod 1880-1920. The rapid demographic and industrial developments the town had been going through before and during this period did not lead to a destruction of the traditional pattern of extended family households, as structural-functionalist theories would assume. A large majority ofthe Tilburg…