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.