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- Englund, Josefin, 1975-
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Som folk är mest : Könsideal i svenska kontaktannonser 1890–1980
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates 5,000 descriptions of men and women in search for a life partner of the opposite sex through classifieds 1890-1980. The advertisers’ descriptions of who they are and what they want sketches a picture of the expectations everyday people have had on how men and women should be over almost a hundred years. Previous accounts of 20th century gender relations are based on governmental and political materials.The bipartite structure of the personals advertisements is used methodologically to differentiate between the so-called “ego-descriptions” and the “alter-descriptions” - what the advertiser had to offer and what the advertiser wanted. Men's descriptions of themselves – ego descriptions – is compared to women's descriptions of the man – alter description –, and women’s descriptions of themselves – ego-description – is compared to men’s descriptions of women – alter description. Six categories were created to capture the content of the personal advertisements: 1) Breadwinner qualifications 2) Parenting qualifications 3) Homemaker qualifications 4) Bodily aspects 5) Leisure 6) Personal interests and qualifications.This study shows that men and women increasingly are described on the grounds of similar qualifications, and that both men and women are increasingly depicted with characteristics that earlier was coded as female. It also shows that children and the family became more important. Stability and security were highly appreciated in the beginning of the period, but gave way to values as mobility and opportunity in the late 1900’s. Both women and men shift from favouring material conditions to an increased focus on feelings and thoughts, and in the end of the period the life partner relationship was more about emotional closeness and the company of a like-minded individual.However, despite these more general results, it is clear that neither the images of the man nor the images woman was unambiguous, and that men and women for most of the time didn't share the same ideals. When thousands of men and women describe their dreams and needs based on the lives they live, unlike government surveys, for example, a multitude of images of the nineteenth century man and woman appear.
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- Hinnemo, Elin, 1982-
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Inför högsta instans : Samspelet mellan kvinnors handlingsutrymme och rättslig reglering i Justitierevisionen 1760–1860
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this dissertation is to illuminate the interplay between female agency and legal regulation in Sweden during the period 1760-1860. The material chosen for the study relates to matters concerning women that were brought before the Judiciary Inspection, the highest legal authority in Sweden. From its central position in the state hierarchy, this court was an arena in which the central power could identify and find solutions to problems important for the stability and development of society.The study identifies issues that encouraged women to bring proceedings before the court, or prompted other parties to bring women to court. The dissertation has analysed the actions taken and arguments made in these cases by women, their counterparts, and court representatives, in relation to the regulations or the absence of regulations in each particular situation. This has shown the room for manoeuvre that could be achieved, and how the women could achieve it – in terms of right to manage property, economic agency and debt responsibility, finding ways to support themselves and their families, or affirming their positions as mothers and mistresses of households. In this way, the dissertation illuminates the freedom of agency in practice that has often been seen as contradictory in a strictly patriarchal society like early modern Sweden.The dissertation also traces some important changes over time, including the increasingly diverse class background of litigants over the period in question, shifts in understandings of property, work, family, and the meaning of legal majority. The central diachronic claims are firstly that the legal system shifted over time from one primarily based upon status, circumstance, and local opinion to one based on formalized understanding of the law founded upon contract and clear legal definitions, and that this had important implications for women’s room for manoeuvre in the courts and in society. Secondly, that the negotiation process contributed to historical change by forcing solutions to contradictions and specifying terms of property ownership and legal majority.
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- Jansson, Karin Hassan, 1966-
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Genus
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Ingår i: Perspektiv på historia. - Stockholm : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144097381 ; , s. 55-74
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- Lindström, Jonas, 1977-, et al.
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Mistress or maid : The structure of women’s work in Sweden, 1550–1800
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Ingår i: Continuity and Change. - 0268-4160 .- 1469-218X. ; 32:2, s. 225-252
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on the verb-oriented method and a unique collection of observations from court records, this article shows that both men and women did almost all categories of work in early modern Sweden. On the level of concrete tasks, however, there was both difference and similarity between the genders. Marital status exerted a strong influence on women’s sustenance activities, creating a clear distinction between unmarried and ever-married. These patterns were probably the effect of a labour legislation that forced young people without independent means to offer their bodies and time to masters and mistresses.
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- Lindström, Jonas, 1977-, et al.
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Pigan i fadersväldet : Regler, undantag och mikrohistoriska möjligheter
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X .- 2002-4827. ; 137:3, s. 351-378
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Starting from a singular case about a late seventeenth-century maid, who disobeyed her mistress and took her to court, this article discusses the place of microhistory in the wider eld of historical research. We argue that microhistory has the potential to make invaluable contributions to our understanding of more general phenomena. This presupposes that the study of a single case is put into a larger context established by previous research. By doing this, we open up the possibility of a dialogue between previous research and the case, which in turn makes possible for the results of the microhistorian to in uence the construction of grand narratives.In our example, the actions of the maid are related to certain propositions in Swedish historical research about patriarchal society. We nd that these propositions explain the maid’s actions inadequately. Instead, we suggest an alternative explanation and reformulate the general understanding of seventeenth-century Swedish patriarchal society on this basis. Patriarchy was a culture, rather than merely an ideology and it o ered a repertoire of arguments that people in both subordinate and superior positions could use. Fathers of di erent kinds, such as household heads, priests, bishops and judges, maintained patriarchal order through a dynamic interplay in which the participation of people in subordinate positions, such as maids, were crucial. Whether this new understanding of the general context is valid or not, or if we are dealing with the exception to a rule, is not for this study but for future research to determine.The kind of microhistory that we advocate is not about “bringing history to life” or “giving it a human face”, nor is it only about falsifying general theories. This would be to underestimate the potential of microhistory. Instead, our microhistory seeks to explain the particular in such a way that it has e ect on how we understand the universal. Instead of reducing a single case to an instance of something di erent, we argue that the case should be used to understand the big picture in a new way. In this way, microhistory is able to make independent contributions to historical research and, in the end, to promote more accurate grand narratives.
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