Early professional women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850
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Early professional women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850
(Routledge research in early modern history)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally ambitious, unlike the great majority of working women in the past. In order to improve their positions or to find better business opportunities, the women discussed in this book invested in developing their qualifications and professional skills, took economic or other kinds of risks, or moved to other countries. Socially, they range from elite women to women of middle-class and lower middle-class origin.
In terms of theory, the book brings fresh insights into issues that have been long discussed in the field of women's history and are also debated today. However, despite its focus on women, the book is conceptually not so much focused on gender as it is on profession, business, career, qualifications, skills, and work. By applying such concepts to analyzing women's endeavours, the book aims at challenging the conventional ideas about them.
Table of Contents
1. Women and Professional Ambitions in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850
[Johanna Ilmakunnas, Marjatta Rahikainen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen]
2. Midwives: Birthing Care Professionals in Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Finland
[Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen]
3. Serving the Prince as the First Step of Female Careers: The Electoral Court of Munich, c. 1660-1840
[Britta Kagler]
4. From Mother to Daughter: Noblewomen in Service at the Swedish Royal Court, c. 1740-1840
[Johanna Ilmakunnas]
5. Remarkable Women Artists: Flower Painting and Professional Changes in Copenhagen, c. 1690-1790
[Anna Lena Lindberg]
6. Performing Women: The Life and Work of Actresses in Stockholm, c. 1780-1850
[Marie Steinrud]
7. "Sister to the Tailor": Guilds, Gender and the Needle Trades in Eighteenth-Century Europe
[Deborah Simonton]
8. Independent Managers: Female Factory Owners in the Northern Provinces of the Russian Empire, c. 1760-1810
[Galina Ulianova]
9. Urban Opportunities: Women in the Restaurant Business in Swedish and Finnish Cities, c. 1800-1850
[Marjatta Rahikainen]
10. Desirable Qualifications and Undesirable Behaviour: Teachers in Swedish Schools for Poor Children, c. 1780-1820
[Asa Karlsson Sjoegren]
11. Cross-Cultural Closeness: Foreign Governesses in the Russian Empire, c. 1700-1850
[Olga Solodyankina]
12. Shaping Middle-Class and Upper-Class Girls: Women as Teachers of Daughters of Good Families in the Baltic Sea World, c. 1780-1850
[Marjatta Rahikainen]
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