Gender and vocation : women, religion and social change in the Nordic countries, 1830-1940
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Gender and vocation : women, religion and social change in the Nordic countries, 1830-1940
（Studia historica, 64）
SKS・FLS, 2000
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-241)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the relationship between women and religion in the Lutheran context of the Nordic countries. In the 19th-century the old social order based on households was challenged and gender relations were renegotiated. Women's active social role was both promoted and opposed by referring to the authority of the Bible. Five scholars from the Nordic countries analyze the debates of woman's vocation, and offer new interpretations of the history of women's movements.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Lutheran Context of Nordic Women's History
- From Fredrika Bremer to Ellen Key: Calling, Gender and the Emancipation Debate in Sweden, c. 1830-1900
- "Called by the Lord" - Women's Place in the Norwegian Missionary Movement
- The Calling of Women: Gender, Religion and Social Reform in Finland, 1860-1920
- The Cult of Domesticity in Danish Women's Philanthropy 1870-1920
- Philanthropy, Politics, Religion and Women in Iceland before the Modern Welfare System, 1895-1935
by "Nielsen BookData"