Marjo Kaartinen
Senior Lecturer, University of Turku, School of History, Department of Cultural History, 20014 Turku, Finland
Dr Kaartinen teaches cultural history at the University of Turku. She is also the director of Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She has published widely, and her research interests reflect her keen interest in especially early modern cultural history. She has mainly focused on women’s history in England, and especially their places and spaces, and the ways in which elite women negotiated towns and countryside. The history of the body is also close to her heart. Reading women’s letters and diaries brought her to the issue of cancer in the breast in early modern England in the long eighteenth century, and her English monograph on the subject is currently being finished. The book discusses the nature of breast cancer in the past, and the ways in which the illness was perceived by the doctors, by the patients and by the patients’ families and friends. She argues that women were active agents of their lives even as patients. Her previous English publications include Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation. (Palgrave 2002).
Email: mkaartin@utu.fi
Webpage: http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/kulttuurihistoria/ihmiset/marjo_kaartinen.html
Senior Lecturer, University of Turku, School of History, Department of Cultural History, 20014 Turku, Finland
Dr Kaartinen teaches cultural history at the University of Turku. She is also the director of Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She has published widely, and her research interests reflect her keen interest in especially early modern cultural history. She has mainly focused on women’s history in England, and especially their places and spaces, and the ways in which elite women negotiated towns and countryside. The history of the body is also close to her heart. Reading women’s letters and diaries brought her to the issue of cancer in the breast in early modern England in the long eighteenth century, and her English monograph on the subject is currently being finished. The book discusses the nature of breast cancer in the past, and the ways in which the illness was perceived by the doctors, by the patients and by the patients’ families and friends. She argues that women were active agents of their lives even as patients. Her previous English publications include Religious Life and English Culture in the Reformation. (Palgrave 2002).
Email: mkaartin@utu.fi
Webpage: http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/kulttuurihistoria/ihmiset/marjo_kaartinen.html