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 / Laura Stark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stark, Laura, author.

Series:

Studia Fennica. Ethnologica ; 13.

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Studia Fennica Ethnologica ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural women--Finland--History--19th century--Sources.

Rural women.

Rural women--Finland--Economic conditions.

Rural women--Finland--Social conditions.

Finnish newspapers--History--19th century.

Finnish newspapers.

Employee theft--Finland--History--19th century.

Employee theft.

Gossip--Finland--History--19th century.

Gossip.

Patriarchy--Finland--History--19th century.

Patriarchy.

Finland--Rural conditions--19th century--Sources.

Finland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, 1 map, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, [2016]

Language Note:

In English, with quotations from original sources translated from the Finnish.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Practices, patriarchy and power

3. Rural inhabitants' participation in the nineteenth-century press

4. Source materials and methods

5. The rise of rural consumption and its discontents

6. Home thievery: a moral evil and practical dilemma

7. Female gossip and 'News carrying'

8. Inheritance, labour incentives and the value of women's farm work

9. The unenlightened rural patriarch

10. Hidden transcripts and the limits of rural patriarchy.

Notes:

"A digital edition of a printed book first published in 2011 by the Finnish Literature Society"--Copyright page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9789522227584

9522227587

9789522227928

9522227927

OCLC:

982228500

Publisher Number:

10.21435/sfe.13

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access