Transnational Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Literature and Periodical Culture : : Entangled Dreams and Cross-Cultural Encounters.

• Superior document: Studies in Periodical Cultures Series ; v.5
• Author: Forestier, Eloïse.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Periodical Cultures Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (162 pages)

Grounded in late nineteenth-century Swedish literature and periodical culture, yet seen through a transnational lens, this book retraces the origins and early developments of Swedish feminism in the eyes, actions, and interactions of a selection of key literary women activists.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations and Tables -- Figures -- Graphs -- Tables -- Introduction -- 1 A Complex History of Western Feminism -- 1.1 The Meaning of Feminism -- 1.2 Feminist Ideologies -- 1.2.1 Liberal Feminism -- 1.2.2 Early Socialist Feminism -- 1.3 A History of Conflict: the Feminist Paradox and the Place of Men -- 1.4 Feminism, Transnationalism, Conflict, and the Periodical Genre -- 1.5 From Cultural Transfer to Entangled Dreams -- 2 The Case of Sweden -- 2.1 The "Woman Question" and Sweden: a Historical Overview -- 2.2 Feminism, Socialism, and Class Perspective in Sweden and Scandinavia -- 2.3 A Transnational Perspective on Swedish Feminism -- 2.4 Book Outline -- 1 Fredrika Bremer, Mary Howitt, and Hertha (1856) -- 1 The Origins of Swedish Feminism: Home, Family Entanglements, and Parallel Feminisms -- 2 The Formation of Bremer's Feminism within 19th-Century Domestic Ideology -- 2.1 At Home, Back Home, and from Home -- 2.2 Travel and Celebrity -- 2.3 Bremer's Fictional Homes and Women's Emancipation -- 2.3.1 Hemmet, eller familje-sorger och fröjder (1839) -- 2.3.2 Hertha, eller en själs historia (1856) -- 2.3.3 The Female Saviour and Bremer's Feminism -- 3 Bremer and Howitt: Collaboration, Conflict, and Hertha's Publication History -- 3.1 Parallel Dreams, Translation, and Conquering the Market -- 3.2 Bremer's Ideas Take a Turn -- 4 Parallel Feminisms: the Translation of Hertha -- 4.1 Swedish Scholarship on Hertha's Translation -- 4.2 Added Passages in the English Editions: "Hertha's Dream" -- 5 Conclusion: the Reception and Legacy of Hertha -- 5.1 Bridges to Transnational Feminist Periodical Culture -- 2 Transnational Liberal Feminism and Staged Conflict in Tidskrift för hemmet (1859-1885) -- 1 Tidskrift för hemmet and Its Co-editors.

2 A Reassessment of the Editorial Schism -- 3 A Contextual Study of Tidskrift för hemmet -- 3.1 Collaborating with Bremer -- 4 Liberal Feminism and Domesticity: the EWJ and Tidskrift för hemmet -- 4.1 The EWJ: a Collective Enterprise -- 4.2 The EWJ and Tidskrift för hemmet: a Partnership -- 4.2.1 Domestic Ideology: Transnational "Homes" and Women's Emancipation -- 4.3 Early Feminism and Men -- 5 Transnational Ideas and Other International Ties -- 5.1 Transnational Grounding of Feminist Ideas -- 5.2 Forging International Ties -- 6 Entangled Voices for a Single Dream: Swedish Women's Emancipation -- 7 Pseudonymity and Participation: Assembling the Voices -- 7.1 A Question of Identity -- 8 Voices and Mediation of the Editors: the Entanglement Strategy -- 8.1 The Voices of the Editors -- 8.2 Overview of the Editorial Personae by Rosalie Olivecrona: "St-," "L.S.," "-ra," and "S-a" -- 8.3 Sophie (Leijonhufvud) Adlersparre: "Esselde," "L-d.," "S.," "Reader," "Keiner" (and "-i"), and "en gammal pianist" -- 8.4 The Voice of "Esselde": a Constructed Dominance -- 8.5 Steering the Debate: a Strategic "Editorial Schism" -- 8.6 The "Open Talk" Column: Manipulation or Persuasion? -- 8.7 "Esselde" and the Role of the Periodical Editor -- 9 Planning the Outcome: Legal Progress and Adlersparre's Social Activism -- 9.1 Tidskrift för hemmet's Editorial Engagement -- 10 Conclusion -- 3 Framåt (1886-1889), Early Socialist Feminism, and the Recognition of Nordic Feminism -- 1 Scholarship, Context, and Concepts -- 2 Framåt: Controversy, Conflict, and Editorial Policies -- 2.1 The Göteborgs kvinnoförening and Framåt: Origins, Format, Price, and Purpose -- 2.2 Alma Åkermark -- 2.3 Breaking Taboos and Conventions -- 2.4 The Conflict with Adlersparre -- 2.5 Freedom of Speech and the Role of the Periodical Editor -- 2.6 Freedom of Speech: an Editorial Paradox.

3 Another Example of Transnational Feminism: Socialism, the 'Antibourgeois' Model -- 4 Swedish and French Feminisms: Le Droit des femmes and Framåt -- 4.1 Feminism according to Léon Richer -- 5 A Cross-national Dialogue between Two Feminist Periodicals -- 5.1 Åkermark's Perspective -- 5.2 Richer's Perspective -- 5.3 Parallel Feminisms -- 6 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Unsigned Newspaper and Periodical Entries -- Consulted Archives -- Index -- Back Cover.