Results and subprojects
Here are the results from four different subprojects, which all form part of the research project Gender and Work. It is about how men and women supported themselves during different periods and parts of the Swedish realm. To talk about historical change in this regard, we have developed concepts that can capture different kinds of livelihood models that we found in the sources and that you can read more about under the heading The two-supporter model(s).
Sweden 1550–1800
During the first phase of the project (2010–2014) we studied how women and men made a living in Sweden in the period from 1550 to 1800.
Västmanland county 1720–1880
The second phase of the project (2017–2021) studied how this changed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
New Methods and Concepts
The third phase of the project (2020–2029) aims to further develop methods and concepts.
Speaking to one's superiors
This is an interdisciplinary research project about petitions as cultural heritage and sources of knowledge.
Dissertations within GaW
- Jezzica Israelsson defended her doctoral thesis Making themselves heard. Women’s and men’s voice through the regional petitioning process in Sweden, 1758–1880, in 2024.
- Christopher Pihl defended his doctoral thesis Arbete: Skillnadsskapande och försörjning i 1500-talets Sverige [Work: Constructing Difference and Making a Living in Sixteenth-Century Sweden] in 2012.
- Christoffer Åhlman defended his doctoral thesis Mötet med det skrivna ordet: Kvinnors läsande och skrivande under 1700-talet, on women's reading and writing in the 18th century, in 2019.
