Her Own Worth

Zusatztext

This book opens up a window on the life of a female labourer who lived and worked in a small ironworks village in central Finland. Her life touches upon many of the core aspects of 20th-century social change in Finland: increasing educational opportunities, social mobility, the emergence of new technologies and the transformation of gender roles. The research focuses on experiences related to gender, class and work, and on the changes occurring in these aspects of life. The research material consists of life-narrative interviews charting a process during which the author of this study engaged in an intergenerational dialogue with an elderly woman born in 1927 who is also her grandmother. The research stands at the crossroads of ethnology, folklore studies as well as social, micro and oral history.

Autorenportrait

Ethnologist Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto), Ph.D., is an Emil Aaltonen Foundation Research Fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). In her current research, she examines transnational destinies and family histories of WWII analyzing the ways in which displacement is transmitted and communicated through stories and mementoes. Koskinen-Koivisto is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ethnologia Fennica, the open access journal of the Association of Finnish Ethnologists. Her main publications include the monograph Her Own Worth: Negotiations of Subjectivity in the Life Narrative of a Female Labourer (2014) and the forthcoming co-edited volume The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place (2019).

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