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- Author: Laura Stark
- Publisher: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura
- Year: 2011
- Pages: 263
- ISBN-10: 9522223271
- ISBN-13: 9789522223272
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 1.4 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Laura Stark
- Publisher: Suomen Kirjallisuuden Seura
- Year: 2011
- Pages: 263
- ISBN-10: 9522223271
- ISBN-13: 9789522223272
- Format: 17.8 x 25.4 x 1.4 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
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.
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