Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850

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.

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]