TY  - GEN
AU  - Stark,Laura
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 Press
SN  - sfe.13
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Helsinki
PB  - Finnish Literature Society / SKS
KW  - Finland
KW  - bicssc
KW  - c 1800 to c 1900
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - Oral history
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - women's history
KW  - modernization
KW  - 19th-century
KW  - agency
KW  - rural
KW  - gender
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Finnish language
KW  - Kuopio
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - SKS
KW  - Uusi Suomi
N1  - Open Access
N2  - "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."
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32119/1/617176.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32119/1/617176.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32119/1/617176.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33436
ER  -