The Limits of Patriarchy
How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press
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Author
Publication
2011 - Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki, No place, unknown, or undetermined
Language
English
Word Count
65,750 words, Guess
Page Count
263 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789522223272
- ISBN-139789522227928
- ISBN-139789522227584
- ISBN-109522223271
- ISBN-109522227927
and 4 more
- ISBN-109522227587
- Library of Congress Control Number2012499085
- OCLC Control Number774492388
- Open LibraryOL28358972M
Classifications
- LCCHQ1665.5 .S73 2011
Description
"In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master?s back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women?s pilfering? What opinions did farm daughters express? This book explores theoretical concepts of agency and power applied to the 19th-century context and takes a closer look at the family patriarch, resistance to patriarchal power by farm mistresses and their daughters, and the identities of those Finnish men who already in the 1850s and 1860s sought to defend the rights of rural farm women."
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