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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.
This book is part of the Studia Fennica Ethnologica series.
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Keywords
- 19th-century
- 20th century
- agency
- anthropology
- c 1800 to c 1900
- ethnography
- Europe
- Finland
- Finnish language
- gender
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- History: specific events & topics
- Humanities
- Kuopio
- Modern period, c 1500 onwards
- Modernization
- Northern Europe, Scandinavia
- Oral history
- Patriarchy
- Rural
- SKS
- Social & cultural history
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTD Oral history
- Time periods qualifiers
- Uusi Suomi
- women's history
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DOI: 10.21435/sfe.13web: http://oa.finlit.fi/site/books/10.21435/sfe.13/
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