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Kvinnliga Medborgarskolan
Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad (Fogelstad Citizen School for Women) was a Swedish education center for women, active from 1922 until 1954. The purpose of the center was to educate women in their new rights and responsibilities as citizens after women suffrage had been achieved in 1921. The center was founded by the ''Fogelstadgruppen'' (Fogelstad Group), a women's group which also managed the ''Frisinnade kvinnors riksförbund'' (Union of Liberal Women) and the magazine '' Tidevarvet'', and it was situated at the Folgestad manor, which was owned by one of the members: Elisabeth Tamm, herself one of the first women in the Swedish parliament. See also * Behörighetslagen * Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund References *Lena Eskilsson, ''Drömmen om kamratsamhället. Kvinnliga medborgarskolan på Fogelsta 1925-35'', Carlssons 1991, * Ulrika Knutson, ''Kvinnor på gränsen till genombrott: grupporträtt av Tidevarvets kvinnor'', Bonnier 2004, *Hjördis Levin Hjördis L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Suffrage
Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts towards women voting, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904 in Berlin, Germany). Many instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. The first place in the world to award and maintain women's suffrage was New Jersey in 1776 (though in 1807 this was reverted so that only white men could vote). The first province to ''continuously'' allow women to vote was Pitcairn Islands in 1838, and the first sovereign nation was Norway in 1913, as the Kingdom of Hawai'i, which originally had universal suffrage in 1840, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidevarvet
''Tidevarvet'' (Swedish: ''The Epoch'') was a weekly political and feminist magazine existed between November 1923 and December 1936 in Stockholm, Sweden. History and profile ''Tidevarvet'' was established in 1923. The first issue appeared on 24 November 1923. The founders were five women, who were called the Fogelstad group: Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, who was a medical doctor, Elisabeth Tamm, a politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author. The founders had a liberal political stance. It was started on the initiatives of the Liberal Women's National Association, which was also established by the group. ''Tidevarvet'' stated its mission in the first issue as follows: the magazine would be a “forum, an arena in which men and women can work side by side to forge a broad-minded vision and find ways of implementing it in legislation and community life.” The magazine was published on a weekly basis. It adopted a radical politica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Tamm
Elisabeth Tamm (30 June 1880, at the manor Fogelstad in Julita, Södermanlands län – 23 September 1958) was a Swedish liberal politician and women's rights activist. She was known in the parliament as ''Tamm i Fogelstad'' ("Tamm of Fogelstad"). Life She was the eldest daughter and heiress of the Parliamentarian and landowner August Tamm and Baroness Emma Åkerhielm af Margrethelund. She and her sister Märta were schooled at home by a governess, and were also instructed by their father in managing an estate. Elisabeth attended lectures at Uppsala University; however, in 1905 she inherited Fogelstad Manor from her father, and abandoned her plans to study in order to attend to her estate. She never married. Her father being a politician, Tamm showed an early interest in politics and the growing women's movement. Political career Being an unmarried woman of legal majority as well as a wealthy property owner, she fulfilled the criteria which made her qualified to vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behörighetslagen
Behörighetslagen () was an historical law in Sweden, which formally guaranteed men and women equal right to all public professions and positions in society, with certain specified exceptions. The law was passed in 1923, and enforced in 1925. It was dropped in 1945, because it contained exceptions which started to be seen as a problem by that point. The exceptions consisted of the right to become priests of the state church (which was allowed in 1958) and to hold military office (which was allowed in a series of reforms in 1980–1989). Background The background to the law was the raising employment rate of women in the educated professions, both in public and private, which took place during the later half of the 19th-century, particularly after women gained access to university education in the 1870s. Because women were suddenly employed in professions where their presence had previously been unknown, such as those of civil servant (5,000 by 1870 and 15,000 by 1890), clerks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund
Svenska Kvinnors Medborgarförbund (SKM) ('Swedish Women's Citizens' Union') was a Swedish women's organization, founded in March 1921. SKM was founded by members of the former National Association for Women's Suffrage (Sweden). When women's suffrage was finally achieved in 1921, the Association for Women's Suffrage was dissolved, and the SKM was founded to support, inform about and enforce the newly acquired citizen rights of women, and assure that the new gender equality enforced in reality and not merely a formal right on paper only. The SKM was a politically neutral association who worked for Swedish women's rights with the stated goal "to make the women of Sweden competent citizens and peace loving members of the world", and to enforce assist women to make use of the rights affored them. The SKM organized courses and collections, arranged lectures and petitioned the government and other authorities in various issues, often with the goal to increase women's equal treatment. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrika Knutson
Ulrica, also spelled Ulrika, is a female given name of Germanic origins. Its male equivalent is Ulric, Ulrich or Ulrik. Ulrike and Ulrikke are alternative names derived from Ulrica. Ulrica may refer to: People * Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688–1741) * Ulrica Elisabeth von Liewen (1747–1775), rumored parent (along with King Adolf Frederick of Sweden) of Lolotte Forssberg * Ulrika Åberg (1771–1852), Swedish ballerina * Ulrica Arfvidsson (1734–1801), Swedish fortune teller * Ulrika Björn (born 1973), Swedish footballer * Ulrika Ericsson, ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Month for November 1996 * Ulrika von Fersen (1749–1810), Swedish socialite, a known figure of the Gustavian age, the inspiration of a poem * Ulrika Jonsson (born 1967), Swedish personality on British television * Ulrika Knape (born 1955), Swedish diver * Ulrika Melin (1767–1834), Swedish artist * Ulrika Pasch (1735–1796), Swedish painter * Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1688–1733), Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hjördis Levin
Hjördis Levin (born 4 June 1930) is a Swedish historian and author whose field of research focuses on gender studies. Early years and education Hildur (nickname, "Hjördis") Charlotta Eriksson was born in Smedby, Östergötland County on 4 June 1930. Levin is the daughter of the gardener Karl Erik Karlsson and Hildur Schwarz. she studied office education at an early age and was an office employee until 1968. She received a B.A. degree in 1971, and earned a doctoral degree at Umeå University in 1994. Career She was a course leader in speech and argumentation techniques in Stockholm from 1973, and worked as a speech trainer in her own company, Juno Speech Training, from 1986. Levin has been an active freelance writer. She has worked as an employee of the Swedish Women's Left Federation's magazine ''Vi Mänskor'' from 1969. She has also written articles for, among other things, ''Kvinnobulletinen'' and ''Acca'' and has been active as a lecturer. She was an employee of '' Focus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Women In Sweden
The status and rights of Women in Sweden has changed several times throughout the history of Sweden. These changes have been affected by the culture, religion and laws of Sweden, as well as social discourses like the strong feminist movement. History of women in Sweden Viking age During the Viking Age, women had a relatively free status in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway, illustrated in the Icelandic Grágás and the Norwegian Frostating laws and Gulating laws.Borgström Eva : Makalösa kvinnor: könsöverskridare i myt och verklighet (Marvelous women : gender benders in myth and reality) Alfabeta/Anamma, Stockholm 2002. (inb.). Libris 8707902. The paternal aunt, paternal niece and paternal granddaughter, referred to as ''odalkvinna'', all had the right to inherit property from a deceased man. In the absence of male relatives, an unmarried woman with no son could further more inherit the position as head of the family from a deceased father or brother: a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
