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oapen-20.500.12657-488122021-05-28T00:56:37Z Framtidens kvinnor Andersson, Maria Gunnar Örnulf Elna Wide Gerda Meyerson Hedda Anderson Hedvig Svedenborg Carl Sundbeck Ulrika von Strussenfelt Elisabeth Kuylenstierna-Wenster Cecilia Milow Ellen Idström Women’s Suffrage Girls’ Education Citizenship Women Authors Intersectionality Girls’ Literature bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSY Children’s & teenage literature studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History The future woman – what would she be like? And what would be her place in society? These questions were explored through stories about girls’ upbringing and education in nineteenth and early twentieth century literature for girls. About the time of the breakthrough of women novelists in the 1830s, books for girls started to be published. They depict everyday games and exhilarating adventures, student life and vocational dreams. By addressing girls directly, these books aimed at both discussing and influencing future female citizens. In Future Women, Maria Andersson shows how Swedish literature for girls and its depiction of young women was a part of the nineteenth century debate on women’s civil and political rights. The genre gathered authors of different political convictions but they were all united by the fact that young women became the focal point of contemporary social changes in their works. Housewifely girls, manly women students and shopping coquettes illustrated different paths to adulthood and modern life. In the girl book genre, the young woman was simultaneously a vehicle of nostalgic memories from a lost world and the promise of a more equal, peaceful future. 2021-05-27T09:27:58Z 2021-05-27T09:27:58Z 2021 book ONIX_20210527_9789170613319_9 9789170613319 9789170618314 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48812 swe application/pdf n/a framtidens-kvinnor.pdf Kriterium 10.22188/kriterium.26 The future woman – what would she be like? And what would be her place in society? These questions were explored through stories about girls’ upbringing and education in nineteenth and early twentieth century literature for girls. About the time of the breakthrough of women novelists in the 1830s, books for girls started to be published. They depict everyday games and exhilarating adventures, student life and vocational dreams. By addressing girls directly, these books aimed at both discussing and influencing future female citizens. In Future Women, Maria Andersson shows how Swedish literature for girls and its depiction of young women was a part of the nineteenth century debate on women’s civil and political rights. The genre gathered authors of different political convictions but they were all united by the fact that young women became the focal point of contemporary social changes in their works. Housewifely girls, manly women students and shopping coquettes illustrated different paths to adulthood and modern life. In the girl book genre, the young woman was simultaneously a vehicle of nostalgic memories from a lost world and the promise of a more equal, peaceful future. 10.22188/kriterium.26 7b034f4a-b816-4718-88ac-63b24c8e4b24 9083628c-f537-4ebe-a5c9-866ce98c3fe4 2794d9b0-68bf-45b6-bd95-ed6cb7e26c07 41664102-1c1b-4540-b72f-53345c92c27a 9789170613319 9789170618314 288 Gothenburg [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] [grantnumber unknown] open access
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The future woman – what would she be like? And what would be her place in society? These questions were explored through stories about girls’ upbringing and education in nineteenth and early twentieth century literature for girls. About the time of the breakthrough of women novelists in the 1830s, books for girls started to be published. They depict everyday games and exhilarating adventures, student life and vocational dreams. By addressing girls directly, these books aimed at both discussing and influencing future female citizens. In Future Women, Maria Andersson shows how Swedish literature for girls and its depiction of young women was a part of the nineteenth century debate on women’s civil and political rights. The genre gathered authors of different political convictions but they were all united by the fact that young women became the focal point of contemporary social changes in their works. Housewifely girls, manly women students and shopping coquettes illustrated different paths to adulthood and modern life. In the girl book genre, the young woman was simultaneously a vehicle of nostalgic memories from a lost world and the promise of a more equal, peaceful future.
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