TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark, Laura
AB  - "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."
DO  - 10.21435/sfe.13
ID  - OAPEN ID: 617176
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 982228500
KW  - women's history
KW  - modernization
KW  - 19th-century
KW  - agency
KW  - rural
KW  - gender
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Finland
KW  - Finnish language
KW  - Kuopio
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - SKS
KW  - Uusi Suomi
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/a914605e-8560-4cfc-a8d3-4de96375429e/617176.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32119
PB  - Finnish Literature Society / SKS
PP  - Helsinki
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9789522227928;9789522227584
TI  - 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 Pressnull
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