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Hassan Jansson, KarinORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-5904-6367
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Ekelund, R. & Hassan Jansson, K. (2022). An empirical history. Historisk Tidskrift, 142(3), 307-319
Open this publication in new window or tab >>An empirical history
2022 (English)In: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 142, no 3, p. 307-319Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SVENSKA HISTORISKA FORENINGEN, 2022
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-495350 (URN)000898820200002 ()
Available from: 2023-01-30 Created: 2023-01-30 Last updated: 2023-01-30Bibliographically approved
Hassan Jansson, K. & Ekelund, R. (2022). En empirisk historia. Historisk Tidskrift, 142(3), 307-319
Open this publication in new window or tab >>En empirisk historia
2022 (Swedish)In: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 142, no 3, p. 307-319Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-485384 (URN)
Available from: 2022-09-22 Created: 2022-09-22 Last updated: 2022-10-17Bibliographically approved
Ekelund, R. & Jansson, K. H. (Eds.). (2022). En empirisk historia. Svenska Historiska Föreningen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>En empirisk historia
2022 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska Historiska Föreningen, 2022. p. 186
Series
Historisk tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X ; Vol Vol Vol 142, Nr 3, 2022
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-485385 (URN)
Available from: 2022-09-22 Created: 2022-09-22 Last updated: 2023-01-20Bibliographically approved
Hassan Jansson, K. & Koefoed, N. J. (2022). Mapping the Household State: Treatment of Disobedient Children in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden. Journal of Family History
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mapping the Household State: Treatment of Disobedient Children in Early Modern Denmark and Sweden
2022 (English)In: Journal of Family History, ISSN 0363-1990, E-ISSN 1552-5473Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article offers a comparative analysis of the early modern Danish and Swedish Household state in relation to the treatment of “disobedient” children. It uses law codes and court records to explore the dynamic relationship between the household and state, arguing that contrasting patterns are apparent despite the common features of absolutism, agrarian, and mono-confessional Lutheranism. In Denmark, the state often responded to such cases by arrogating the power of the household and removing children from their care. In Sweden, the state upheld and sought to educate the household and relied upon parents to carry out appropriate chastisements of its junior members.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2022
Keywords
Household, Parenthood, Disobedient children, household - state relations, Denmark, Sweden
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-485351 (URN)10.1177/03631990221126069 (DOI)000857700600001 ()
Projects
Den nordiska hushållstaten: variationer på ett tema av Luther
Funder
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, P17-0066:1
Available from: 2022-09-22 Created: 2022-09-22 Last updated: 2022-10-14Bibliographically approved
Hassan Jansson, K. (2021). Kvinnfolk, karlar och könskategorier: Ord och mening i det tidigmoderna Sverige. Historisk Tidskrift, 141(3), 409-442
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kvinnfolk, karlar och könskategorier: Ord och mening i det tidigmoderna Sverige
2021 (Swedish)In: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 141, no 3, p. 409-442Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Womenfolk, farmhands and gender categories: Significant words in early modern Sweden

This article takes Denise Riley’s and Joan Scott’s call to historize the categories of women and men as its starting point and presents an investigation of words used to designate people in two different text corpora from early modern Sweden.The first corpus is a selection from the database Korp that contains printed texts from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, mainly newspapers. The other corpus is the Gender and Work (GaW) database based mainly on court books, but also on diaries and other accounts. The frequency of Swedish equivalents of ”woman”, ”wife”, ”Mrs”, ”madame”, ”widow”, ”maid”, ”girl”, ”man”, ”Mr”, ”gentleman”, ”farmhand”, ”boy” and several similar words have been studied in both corpora, complemented by an in-depth study of the GaW corpus.The investigation shows that words used to denote people in early modern Sweden regularly included several intersectional elements: almost always gender, but also information about household position, age, kinship and social status. For women, ”wife” (hustru) was the most common title in both corpora. For men, the word ”man” (man) was quite common in the Korp corpus but rather unusual in the GaW corpus. In the latter the word ”man” and ”woman” were used in a few instances when someone wanted to point out the sex of otherwise anonymous people. Both ”man” and ”woman”, but especially ”woman”, were also used with a derogatory meaning. The only context in which a version of the word ”woman” (kvinnfolk) was used regularly was in lists of women’s wages in accounts from royal demesnes.The use of words is governed by context. In legal courts, people’s legal status and credibility were important, as were their family and kinship relationships, especially in cases involving property and inheritance. The words most commonly used about women in court – ”wife”, ”widow”, ”daughter” and ”maid” – testified to these very circumstances. In addition to the professsional-like titles, the same types of words dominated for men. Early modern Sweden was a corporative society and a person’s position in various corporations – the household, the family, the village, the guild, etc. – was signaled in the language.The intersectional character of early modern designations underlines the importance of doing gender history without stating the importance of certain categories in advance: we should not, for  example, presuppose that female sex was a more important signifier than subordinate household position in the word maid. In the corporative, unequal society of early modern Sweden, people almost never had reason to talk about what Joan Scott called ”a collectivity named ’women’” and historians of early modern society should be cautious to assume that there was a general ”femininity” in common for all women, constructed in relation to a comparable general ”masculinity” in common for all men. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska Historiska Föreningen, 2021
Keywords
gender, early modern, women, men, digital humanities, corpus-based analysis, Sweden
National Category
History
Research subject
History; Gender Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-455195 (URN)
Note

Title in WoS: Womenfolk, farmhands and gender categories: Significant words in early modern Sweden

Available from: 2021-10-05 Created: 2021-10-05 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved
Hassan Jansson, K. (2021). Womenfolk, farmhands and gender categories: Significant words in early modern Sweden. Historisk Tidskrift, 141(3), 409-442
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Womenfolk, farmhands and gender categories: Significant words in early modern Sweden
2021 (English)In: Historisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0345-469X, E-ISSN 2002-4827, Vol. 141, no 3, p. 409-442Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article takes Denise Riley's and Joan Scott's call to historize the categories of women and men as its starting point and presents an investigation of words used to designate people in two different text corpora from early modern Sweden. The first corpus is a selection from the database Korp that contains printed texts from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, mainly newspapers. The other corpus is the Gender and Work (GaW) database based mainly on court books, but also on diaries and other accounts. The frequency of Swedish equivalents of "woman", "wife", "Mrs", "madame", "widow", "maid", "girl", "man", "Mr", "gentleman", "farmhand", "boy" and several similar words have been studied in both corpora, complemented by an in-depth study of the GaW corpus. The investigation shows that words used to denote people in early modern Sweden regularly included several intersectional elements: almost always gender, but also information about household position, age, kinship and social status. For women, "wife" (hustru) was the most common title in both corpora. For men, the word "man" (man) was quite common in the Korp corpus but rather unusual in the GaW corpus. In the latter the word "man" and "woman" were used in a few instances when someone wanted to point out the sex of otherwise anonymous people. Both "man" and "woman", but especially "woman", were also used with a derogatory meaning. The only context in which a version of the word "woman" (kvinnfolk) was used regularly was in lists of women's wages in accounts from royal demesnes. The use of words is governed by context. In legal courts, people's legal status and credibility were important, as were their family and kinship relationships, especially in cases involving property and inheritance. The words most commonly used about women in court "wife", "widow", "daughter" and "maid" testified to these very circumstances. In addition to the professional-like titles, the same types of words dominated for men. Early modern Sweden was a corporative society and a person's position in various corporations - the household, the family, the village, the guild, etc. - was signaled in the language. The intersectional character of early modern designations underlines the importance of doing gender history without stating the importance of certain categories in advance: we should not, for example, presuppose that female sex was a more important signifier than subordinate household position in the word maid. In the corporative, unequal society of early modern Sweden, people almost never had reason to talk about what Joan Scott called "a collectivity named 'women- and historians of early modern society should be cautious to assume that there was a general "femininity" in common for all women, constructed in relation to a comparable general "masculinity" in common for all men.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Svenska Historiska FöreningenSVENSKA HISTORISKA FORENINGEN, 2021
Keywords
gender, early modern, women, men, digital humanities, corpus-based analysis, Sweden
National Category
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-477022 (URN)000711574600003 ()
Available from: 2022-06-22 Created: 2022-06-22 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved
Jacobsson, B., Jansson, K. H. & Vorminder, S. (2020). Mantalslängder och mantalsuppgifter. In: Jonas Lindström (Ed.), Fantastiska verb: Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720-1880 (pp. 73-96). Uppsala: Swedish Science Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mantalslängder och mantalsuppgifter
2020 (Swedish)In: Fantastiska verb: Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720-1880 / [ed] Jonas Lindström, Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 2020, p. 73-96Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 2020
Series
Opuscula historica Upsaliensia, ISSN 0284-8783 ; 58
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-430958 (URN)9789198450934 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-01-13 Created: 2021-01-13 Last updated: 2021-09-28Bibliographically approved
Jansson, K. H., Carlsson, C. M., Lindroth, C. & Lindström, J. (2020). Ortsbeskrivningar. In: Jonas Lindström (Ed.), Fantastiska verb: Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720-1880 (pp. 47-71). Uppsala: Swedish Science Press
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ortsbeskrivningar
2020 (Swedish)In: Fantastiska verb: Hur man fångar uppgifter om kön och arbete, Västmanland 1720-1880 / [ed] Jonas Lindström, Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 2020, p. 47-71Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Swedish Science Press, 2020
Series
Opuscula historica Upsaliensia, ISSN 0284-8783 ; 58
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-430959 (URN)9789198450934 (ISBN)
Available from: 2021-01-13 Created: 2021-01-13 Last updated: 2021-09-24Bibliographically approved
Lindström, J., Jacobsson, B., Wærn-Carlsson, C. M., Hassan Jansson, K., Henningson, L., Ågren, M., . . . Kardell, Ö. (2020). Uppgifter om mäns och kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i häradsrättens protokoll, Snevringe (Västmanland), perioden 1720-1880. Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Uppgifter om mäns och kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i häradsrättens protokoll, Snevringe (Västmanland), perioden 1720-1880
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2020 (Swedish)Data set, Primary data
Abstract [sv]

Uppgifter om mäns och kvinnors försörjningsaktiviteter i Snevringe (Västmanland) häradsrätts protokoll har transkriberats och analyserats, och källtext och källtrogna variabler registrerats bokstavstroget, av Jonas Lindström, Benny Jacobsson, Carl Mikael Carlsson, Karin Hassan Jansson, Linnea Henningsson, Maria Ågren, Sarah Vorminder och Örjan Kardell, inom forskningsprojektet Gender and Work.

Kvalitetskontroll är utförd av Sofia Ling och Jonas Lindström.

Analys av källmaterialet har gjorts av Benny Jacobsson, Carl Mikael Carlsson, Karin Hassan Jansson, Linnea Henningsson, Maria Ågren, Sarah Vorminder, Örjan Kardell inom projektet Gender and Work https://www.uu.se/gaw

Materialet är sökbart i databasen GAW - https://gotham.ddb.umu.se/

Place, publisher, year
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2020
Keywords
historia, försörjning, arbete, genus, domböcker, Västmanland, 1700-tal, 1800-tal
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-518161 (URN)
Available from: 2023-12-17 Created: 2023-12-17 Last updated: 2023-12-18
Jansson, K. H. & Lindström, J. (2018). Horet i Hälsta:: en sann historia från 1600-talet (1ed.). Stockholm: Natur och kultur
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Horet i Hälsta:: en sann historia från 1600-talet
2018 (Swedish)Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018. p. 238 Edition: 1
Keywords
micro history, gender, early modern, crime, Västmanland, fornication, murder by poison, household
National Category
History
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-360074 (URN)978-91-27-15375-2 (ISBN)
Projects
Gender and work
Available from: 2018-09-10 Created: 2018-09-10 Last updated: 2018-12-13Bibliographically approved
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