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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 Kägler]
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
[Åsa Karlsson Sjögren]
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]
Riassunto
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. 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 economi
