Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 16501850
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 womens 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 womens endeavours, the book aims at challenging the conventional ideas about them.
Johanna Ilmakunnas is acting professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland.
Marjatta Rahikainen is a docent of social history at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen is a professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland.
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Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 16501850
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Johanna Ilmakunnas is acting professor of Finnish history at the University of Turku, Finland, as well as a docent of European history at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research interests include material culture, consumption, lifestyle, credit, work and leisure, gender and elites in eighteenth-century Sweden and France. Her publications include a major study of the lifestyle of Swedish eighteenth-century aristocracy, Ett stndsmssigt liv: Familjen von Fersens livsstil (SLS & Atlantis, 2012), Embroidering Women & Turning Men: Handiwork, Gender and Emotions in Sweden and Finland, c. 17201820, in the Scandinavian Journal of History (2016) and A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe: Display, Acquisition and Boundaries (Bloomsbury, 2017 co-edited with Jon Stobart). She is co-editor of the Sjuttonhundratal Nordic Yearbook for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Britta Kgler is a historian of early modern history with a special interest in regional and cultural history. She works as a research assistant and academic in the History Department at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen, Germany. Her research interests include social and cultural history, trans- and intercultural relations and economic history. To satisfy these interests, she has been working on early modern court culture and migrating musicians and has published widely on the subjects. She is currently focusing on building processes in the Baroque period.
sa Karlsson Sjgren is professor of history at Ume University, Sweden. Her primary research interests lie in womens and gender history from legal, political and social perspectives. Her publications include Gender and Urban Land in Swedish Towns, in Female Agency in the Urban Economy: Gender in European Towns, 16401830 (Routledge, 2013), edited by Deborah Simonton and Anne Montenach; Citizenship, Poor Relief and the Politics of Gender in Swedish Cities and Towns at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, in Gender in Urban Europe: Sites of Political Activity and Citizenship (Routledge, 2014), edited by Krista Cowman, Nina Javette Koefoed and sa Karlsson Sjgren; and Negotiating Charity: Emotions, Gender, and Poor Relief in Sweden at the Turn of the 19th Century, in the Scandinavian Journal of History (2016).
