Rösträtt för kvinnor

Rösträtt för kvinnor ('Suffrage for Women') was a journal published by the Swedish National Association for Women's Suffrage. It was first published in 1912 and the last issue was published in 1919, when the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) decided to extend universal suffrage to men and women. The journal's motto was: "We can never do as much for a great cause as a great cause can do for us."^[1]

Rösträtt för kvinnor

Publisher	Swedish National Association for Women's Suffrage
First issue	1 March 1912 (1912-03-01)
Final issue Number	1 December 1919; 104 years ago (1919-12-01) Volume 8, number 15
Country	Sweden
Based in	Stockholm
Language	Swedish

History

First page of the final issue in 1919, focusing entirely on women's newly won suffrage.

The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt, LKPR) had been using the Fredrika Bremer Association's journal Dagny as a mouthpiece. Cooperation between the two could be problematic at times; LKPR was against the fact that the editors of Dagny also allowed opponents of suffrage to publish in the journal. The collaboration ended in 1911, and the following year LKPR published the first issue of Rösträtt för kvinnor.^[2]

Its first editor was Elisabeth Krey-Lange,^[3] followed by Ester Brisman [sv] from 1913 to 1914; Brisman was then editor-in-chief from 1913 to 1919.^[4] Most of the most prominent figures in the Swedish women's movement contributed articles, including Gulli Petrini, Anna Lindhagen, Ellen Key, Lydia Wahlström, Elsa Collin, Karolina Widerström, Anna Bugge-Wicksell, and Signe Bergman.

Eight years after the journal's launch, in May 1919, Parliament voted to extend the right to vote to women.^[5] The June 1919 issue was devoted entirely to suffrage reform and women's new role as citizens. The last issue of the journal was published in December 1919.

See also

• Hertha (magazine)
• Idun (magazine)
• Morgonbris
• Tidevarvet
• Tidskrift för hemmet

References

Notes

1. "Så fick vi kvinnlig rösträtt i Sverige". Historiska Media (in Swedish). 19 December 2021. Archived from the original on 3 July 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
2. Wistrand, Birgitta (2009). Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund, den första självständiga politiska kvinnoorganisationen: framgångsrik organisering trots uppförsbacke och motvind (in Swedish). pp. 33–34. ISBN 9789163351952. OCLC 938950778.
3. Lundgren, Kristina (2 March 2020). "Elisabeth Johanna Lovisa Krey-Lange". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Translated by Margaret Myers. Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
4. "Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek: Redaktörer och skribenter". Gothenburg University Library (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
5. Zachrisson, Lotta; Wikén, Erik (24 May 2019). "Kvinnlig rösträtt fyller 100 år". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 7 June 2022.

Sources

• Nordenstam, Anna, ed. (2014). Nya röster: Svenska kvinnotidskrifter under 150 år (in Swedish). Gidlunds förlag. pp. 41–42, 70. ISBN 9789178448920.

External links

• Gothenburg University Library: All issues of Rösträtt för kvinnor in PDF format (in Swedish)