Maria Ågren: 3 books
by Maria Ågren
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Marriage today is our prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the principal economic institution. This collection of essays offers a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of the marital partnership in northern Europe over a 500-year period. Erickson's...
Domestic Secrets
Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights,...
The state as master
Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650–1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation...