6/7/2023 0 Comments Rouva C. by Minna RytisaloRytisalo tells me that the Me Too movement is prompting “exactly the kinds of conversations that Minna Canth would have wanted us to have.” “Establishing a right doesn’t guarantee forever.” “Rights are never written in stone,” Rytisalo says. “She believed that girls should have the right to an education…to learn about things like science, nature and the economy,” says Rytisalo, who teaches Finnish language and literature at the upper secondary (high school) level.Īlthough Finland has taken huge steps towards achieving gender equality since Canth’s time, her writing remains relevant. “In many ways was ahead of her time,” says Minna Rytisalo, author of Rouva C (“Mrs C,” published by Gummerus in 2018), a fictionalised account of Canth’s marriage to her former teacher, Johan Ferdinand Canth (1835–79). Author and teacher Minna Rytisalo cautions that “establishing a right doesn’t guarantee it forever,” and says that we can all learn from Minna Canth’s attitude.
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