Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1850
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Women and professional ambitions in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850 -- 2 Midwives: Birthing care professionals in eighteenth-century Sweden and Finland -- 3 Serving the prince a...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Milton : Taylor and Francis,
2017
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| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Women and professional ambitions in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850 -- 2 Midwives: Birthing care professionals in eighteenth-century Sweden and Finland -- 3 Serving the prince as the first step of female careers: The electoral court of Munich, c. 1660-1840 -- 4 From mother to daughter: Noblewomen in service at the Swedish royal court, c. 1740-1840 -- 5 Remarkable women artists: Flower painting and professional changes in Copenhagen, c. 1690-1790 -- 6 Performing women: The life and work of actresses in Stockholm, c. 1780-1850 -- 7 'Sister to the tailor': Guilds, gender and the needle trades in eighteenth-century Europe -- 8 Independent managers: Female factory owners in the northern provinces of the Russian Empire, c. 1760-1810 -- 9 Urban opportunities: Women in the restaurant business in Swedish and Finnish cities, c. 1800-1850 -- 10 Desirable qualifications and undesirable behaviour: Teachers in Swedish schools for poor children, c. 1780-1820 -- 11 Cross-cultural closeness: Foreign governesses in the Russian Empire, c. 1700-1850 -- 12 Shaping middle-class and upper-class girls: Women as teachers of daughters of good families in the Baltic Sea world, c. 1780-1850 -- Select bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (291 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781317146735 1317146735 9781472471345 1472471342 |