Gender and Vocation

Contents: Pirjo Markkola, Introduction: The Lutheran Context of Nordic Women's History; Inger Hammar, From Fredrika Bremer to Ellen Key: Calling, Gender and the Emancipation Debate in Sweden, c. 1830–1900; Bjørk Seland, "Called by the Lord" – Women's Place in the Norwegian Missionary Movement; Pirjo Markkola, The Calling of Women: Gender, Religion and Social Reform in Finland, 1860–1920; Karin Lützen, The Cult of Domesticity in Danish Women's Philanthrophy, 1870–1920; Inga Huld Hakonardottir, Philanthrophy, Politics, Religion and Women in Iceland before the Modern Welfare System, 1895–1935.