Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, C. 1650-1850

ISBN-13: 9780367881443 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 280 str.

Johanna Ilmakunnas; Marjatta Rahikainen; Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

Opis

This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented women. In order to improve their positions or to find better business opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in developing their qualifications and professional skills, took economi

Spis treści

1. Women and Professional Ambitions in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850

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2. Midwives: Birthing Care Professionals in Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Finland

[Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen]

3. Serving the Prince as the First Step of Female Careers: The Electoral Court of Munich, c. 1660–1840

[Britta Kägler]

4. From Mother to Daughter: Noblewomen in Service at the Swedish Royal Court, c. 1740–1840

[Johanna Ilmakunnas]

5. Remarkable Women Artists: Flower Painting and Professional Changes in Copenhagen, c. 1690–1790

[Anna Lena Lindberg]

6. Performing Women: The Life and Work of Actresses in Stockholm, c. 1780–1850

[Marie Steinrud]

7. "Sister to the Tailor": Guilds, Gender and the Needle Trades in Eighteenth-Century Europe

[Deborah Simonton]

8. Independent Managers: Female Factory Owners in the Northern Provinces of the Russian Empire, c. 1760–1810

[Galina Ulianova]

9. Urban Opportunities: Women in the Restaurant Business in Swedish and Finnish Cities, c. 1800–1850

[Marjatta Rahikainen]

10. Desirable Qualifications and Undesirable Behaviour: Teachers in Swedish Schools for Poor Children, c. 1780–1820

[Åsa Karlsson Sjögren]

11. Cross-Cultural Closeness: Foreign Governesses in the Russian Empire, c. 1700–1850

[Olga Solodyankina]

12. Shaping Middle-Class and Upper-Class Girls: Women as Teachers of Daughters of Good Families in the Baltic Sea World, c. 1780–1850

[Marjatta Rahikainen]

O autorze

Johanna Ilmakunnas is acting professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland.

Marjatta Rahikainen is a docent of social history at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is a professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland.