Part of
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.
These are words or phrases in the text that have been
automatically identified by the
Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation service,
which provides Wikipedia
(
)
and Wikidata
(
)
links for these entities.
Stark, L. 2011. 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. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21435/sfe.13
This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives 4.0 license. Copyright is retained by the author(s)
This book has been peer reviewed. See our Peer Review Policies for more information.
Published on 27 Dec 2011
English
263
| EPUB | 978-952-222-758-4 |
| Paperback | 978-952-222-327-2 |
| 978-952-222-792-8 |