Limits of Patriarchy

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978-952-222-327-2
Stark, Laura
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
Finnish Literature Society
Studia Fennica. Ethnologica 13
Vantaa 2011, 263 pp.
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. 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.
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ISBN 978-952-222-327-2
ISSN 1235-1954
Publisher Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Series Studia Fennica: ethnologica
Published (year) 2011
Cover Softcover
Type of Binding Softcover binding
Languages english
Disciplines Ethnology
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