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Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond

Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies

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Editors:
  1. Josefina Erikson

    1. Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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  2. Lenita Freidenvall

    1. Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Combines historical and contemporary political science perspectives
  • Addresses the challenges for women’s political inclusion empirically and theoretically
  • Theorize on the ways in which political gender equality is constrained or can be accelerated

Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: A Historical and Institutional Perspective on Women’s Political Inclusion

    • Josefina Erikson, Lenita Freidenvall
    Pages 1-34

  3. Conclusions: Theorising Gendered Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies for Institutional Change

    • Josefina Erikson, Lenita Freidenvall
    Pages 247-269

  4. Struggling for the Equal Right to Vote and Stand for Elections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
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    2. Resisting Democratisation: Arguments Against Female Enfranchisement Among Members of the Swedish Parliament 1866–1918

      • PÃ¥l Brunnström, Magnus Olofsson
      Pages 37-61

    3. Struggles, Resources and Strategies: Portraits of Six Swedish Women Suffrage Activists

      • Boel Englund, Agneta Linné, Ingrid Heyman, Kerstin Skog-Östlin, Eva Trotzig
      Pages 63-84

    4. Intersectionality, Identity and Women’s Suffrage

      • Ramola Ramtohul
      Pages 85-104

  5. Processes of Institutionalised Masculinity in Post-suffrage Struggles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Why are so Few Women Elected? Political Party Strategies in Denmark and Sweden During the First Parliamentary Election After Women’s Enfranchisement

      • Drude Dahlerup
      Pages 107-130

    3. Women’s Movements Local Election Campaigns in Norway

      • Beatrice Halsaa
      Pages 131-156

    4. Practising the Right to Vote. Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 1915–1944

      • Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir, Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir
      Pages 157-177

  6. Contemporary Victories and Remaining Obstacles?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Her Rights at Work – Women in Parliament

      • Marian Sawer
      Pages 181-198

    3. Still Signs of Masculine Norms in the Parliamentary Workplace? Political Gender Equality in Finland and Sweden After a Century of Universal Suffrage

      • Josefina Erikson, Anna Björk, Juho-Matti Paavola
      Pages 199-220

    4. Critical Culture: The Role of Institutional Norms in Gender Sensitising Parliaments

      • Sonia Palmieri, Lenita Freidenvall
      Pages 221-245

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 271-275
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About this book

This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term historical perspective that lays the groundwork for theoretical development. In this regard, the book makes two key contributions: it furthers our understanding of different types of gendered institutional constraints on women’s political inclusion and elaborates feminist institutional strategies to counter these constraints.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Government, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Josefina Erikson

  • Statsvetenskapliga Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lenita Freidenvall

About the editors

Josefina Erikson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Lenita Freidenvall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond

  • Book Subtitle: Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies

  • Editors: Josefina Erikson, Lenita Freidenvall

  • Series Title: Gender and Politics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52359-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52358-8Published: 29 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-52361-8Due: 31 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-52359-5Published: 28 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5814

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5822

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Politics and Gender, Gender Studies, Political Science, European Politics

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