''Kvinnesaksnytt'' ("Women's Rights News") was a Norwegian journal on

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

that included news and analysis of Norwegian and international women's rights issues. It was published by the

Norwegian Association for Women's Rights The Norwegian Association for Women's Rights ( no, italic=no, Norsk Kvinnesaksforening; NKF) is Norway's oldest and preeminent women's and girls' rights organization and works "to promote gender equality and all women's and girls' human rights thr ...

, the country's main women's rights organization, from 1950 to 2016, and was Norway's main women's rights journal for 66 years. It was the successor of the association's earlier journal ''

Nylænde ''Nylænde'' (Norwegian: ''New Frontiers'') was a Norwegian political and cultural magazine that focused on women's rights. It was regarded as one of the most influential political magazines in Norway in its time and played an important role in th ...

'' (1887–1927), one of the most influential political magazines in Norway since the 1880s.

History

The journal was established in 1950 on the initiative of NKF President Dakky Kiær as a successor to the association's former journal ''

'', which was published 1887–1927 with

Gina Krog Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog (20 June 1847 – 14 April 1916) was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia. She played a central role in the Norwegian l ...

and

Fredrikke Mørck Fredrikke Andrea Møllerup Mørck (9 November 1861 – 14 October 1934) was a Norwegian liberal feminist, editor, and teacher. She served as the editor-in-chief of the women's rights magazine ''Nylænde'' from 1916 to 1927 and as the 10th preside ...

as editors. It was published as a printed journal, with the exception of the last issue, which only appeared electronically. The journal contained news and commentary on Norwegian, Nordic and international women's rights issues from the perspective of the bourgeois-liberal women's rights movement, often with a legal perspective, and was NKF's most important publication for 66 years. Among the issues the journal covered were marriage legislation, equal pay, gender roles, gender equality law, the establishment of the Gender Equality Council and the Gender Equality Ombud, gender-discriminatory advertising, CEDAW and

gender and development Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a Feminism, feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based up ...

. The journal has also published several special issues, such as "Kvinnesak og kjønnsroller" (Women's rights and gender roles) by Kari Skjønsberg. Like its owner NKF, the journal represented a liberal feminist perspektive.

Eva Kolstad Eva Severine Lundegaard Kolstad (born Eva Severine Lundegaard Hartvig; 6 May 1918 – 26 March 1999) was a Norwegian politician and government minister for the Liberal Party. A major figure in the history of liberal feminism and the development of ...

wrote in ''Kvinnesaknytt'' in 1959 that "what we want to achieve is a society where individual skills will determine the individual's path, not social norms and old traditions ..Women's rights is therefore not a struggle ''against'' men. It is a struggle for greater human opportunities, for spiritual liberation." The editors-in-chief included

Ingerid Gjøstein Resi Ingerid Gjøstein Resi (15 July 1901 – 6 August 1955) was a Norwegian philologist, women's rights leader and politician for the Liberal Party. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1952 until her death in 19 ...

Marit Aarum Marit Johanne Aarum (1903–1956) was a Norway, Norwegian economist, liberal politician, civil servant and feminist. Aarum was born April 22, 1903. She studied at University of Oslo, Royal Frederick University and received a cand.oecon. degree in ...

, Kari Skjønsberg,

Karin M. Bruzelius Karin Maria Bruzelius (born 19 February 1941) is a Swedish-born Norwegian supreme court justice and former president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. In 1989, she became the first woman to be appointed Permanent Secretary of a gove ...

Torild Skard Torild Skard (born 29 November 1936) is a Norwegian psychologist, politician for the Socialist Left Party, a former Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of UNICEF. She served as a Member of Parliame ...

and

Margunn Bjørnholt Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian sociologist and economist. She is a research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies (NKVTS) and a professor of sociology at the Univers ...

.Elisabeth Lønnå (1996).
Stolthet og kvinnekamp: Norsk kvinnesaksforenings historie fra 1913
',

Gyldendal Norsk Forlag Gyldendal Norsk Forlag AS, commonly referred to as Gyldendal N.F. and in Norway often only as Gyldendal, is one of the largest Norwegian publishing houses. It was founded in 1925 after buying rights to publications from the Danish publishing ho ...

, ISBN 8205244952

References

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