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]