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

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

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stark, Laura, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Helsinki : Finnish Literature Society / SKS [2016]
Colección:Studia Fennica. Ethnologica ; 13.
Materias:
Rural women > Finland > History > 19th century > Sources.
Rural women > Finland > Economic conditions.
Rural women > Finland > Social conditions.
Finnish newspapers > History > 19th century.
Employee theft > Finland > History > 19th century.
Gossip > Finland > History > 19th century.
Patriarchy > Finland > History > 19th century.
Finland > Rural conditions > 19th century > Sources.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427898206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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