Thesis (doctoral)--Lund. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-290) and index.

Historiskt har kvinnan haft en undanskymd plats där hon trots sin osynlighet varit konstant närvarande. Att inte kvinnan fått större uppmärksamhet har att göra med de normer och värderingar som funnits i samhället rörande genus. Det är först nu de senaste femtio åren som vi kan tala om någon större förändring, där kvinnan ses som en människa, likvärdig med mannen. Som framtida lärare anser vi det viktigt att även lyfta fram kvinnors historia i historieundervisningen då det kan vara lätt att falla in det patriarkala samhället som ständigt skildras i undervisningen. Med den här uppsatsen har vi fått möjligheten att fördjupa vår kunskap kring hur den moderna svenska kvinnan växt fram och hur hennes väg mot självständighet såg ut, vilka normer och värderingar som hon kom att kämpa mot. I Sverige är demokrati och rösträtt något så självklart att det kan ha tappat sitt värde. Den är så självklar för oss att de skyldigheter som ligger bakom demokratin som att faktiskt gå och rösta samt att ha möjligheten att påverka, tappar sitt värde i och med självklarheten. "Enligt skollagen ska utbildningen utformas i överensstämmelse med grundläggande demokratiska värderingar och de mänskliga rättigheterna som människolivets okränkbarhet, individens frihet och integritet, alla människors lika värde, jämställdhet samt solidaritet mellan människor." Att få fördjupa oss inom ett ämne som ligger oss nära, kvinnans kamp för rösträtt och emancipation, ger oss vidgade möjligheter för att kunna applicera detta komplexa område i vår framtida undervisning. Skolans värdegrund ska genomsyra all undervisning och genom att behandla ett ämne som den kvinnliga rösträtten ges elever exempel på hur de grundläggande demokratiska värderingarna har växt fram. För hundra år sedan var det bara halva Sveriges befolkning som hade möjligheten att rösta, som kvinna stod du utanför detta system och räknades inte ens som en fullvärdig medborgare. För oss idag är detta otänkbart, att det skulle vara skillnad mellan människor och människor, att det kvinnliga könet inte skulle vara lika mycket värt som det manliga. Att genus är något socialt konstrueras är inte något nytt och dessa sociala konstruktioner kring manligt och kvinnligt förändras ständigt med tiden. Med den här uppsatsen hoppas vi kunna urskilja de förändringar som skett med tiden. Uppsatsens syfte är att studera tidningarna Dagny och Hertha för att utläsa vilken argumentation som fördes kring debatten om den kvinnliga rösträtten under åren 1900 - 1919. Argumentationen ska studeras utifrån ett genusteoretiskt synsätt och ur syftet reser sig följande frågeställningar: Hur såg argumentationen ut i tidningarna för den kvinnliga rösträtten? Hur skildras argumentationen i tidningarna utifrån tidens normer och värderingar?

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur historiska reseberättelser kan användas i svenskundervisning på gymnasiet. Detta gjordes genom en analys av Fredrika Bremers Hemmen i den nya världen (1853–1854) och Henry Morton Stanleys Hur jag fann Livingstone (1872) där genretypiska teman och konflikter identifierades utifrån bland annat Carina Lidströms genrekriterier och personabegrepp. De teman som analyserades är: persona, läsarens man på plats, mötet med andra kulturer samt kvinnligt och manligt. Dessa utgjorde tillsammans med bland annat Kathleen McCormicks litteraturdidaktiska repertoarteori grunden för den avslutande didaktiska diskussionen.  Resultatet visar att både Bremers och Stanleys reseberättelser har många teman och konflikter som lämpar sig för undervisning, bland annat att de visar på ideologiska motstridigheter i sin samtid, och att reseberättelsen som genre har hög didaktisk potential bland annat genom sin position mellan fakta och fiktion. / The aim of this essay is to examine how historical travel writing can be used in the teaching of Swedish in the upper secondary school. This is done by an analysis of Fredrika Bremer’s Homes in the New World (1853–1854) and Henry Morton Stanley’s How I Found Livingstone (1872), where the genre-specific themes and conflicts are identified, using Carina Lidstöm’s genre criterias. The themes are persona; the reader’s ”man on the scene”; meeting of other cultures, and female and male gender roles. Together with Kathleen McCormick’s literary didactic repertoire theory, these themes form the basis for the closing didactic discussion.  The results show that both Bremers’s and Stanley’s travelogues have many themes and conflicts that are suitable for teaching, including signs of ideological contradictions in their time, and that travel writing as a genre has a high didactic potential through its position between fact and fiction.

Vilken roll har de partipolitiskt obundna kvinnoorganisationerna spelat i samhällets beslutsprocess? Denna fråga studeras i föreliggande avhandling, som behandlar Fredrika—Bremerförbundet och Sveriges Husmodersföreningars Riksförbund/Husmodersförbundet Hem och Samhälle såväl på riksplanet som i Jämtlands län.Syftet har varit, att se i vad mån kvinnorna kunnat påverka samhället och dess utveckling, samt vilka medel och metoder de använt sig av för att få sin rättmätiga roll i beslutsprocessen och uppnå med mannen likvärdiga villkor i politiken, arbetslivet etc. I samband därmed har också försök gjorts att finna orsakerna till förhållandet, att det råder en så uppenbar diskrepans mellan kvinnornas formella respektive reella jämställdhet i ovannämnda avseenden. Under den tid undersökningen omfattar, har många för kvinnorna ytterst väsentliga reformer sett dagens ljus såsom den kvinnliga rösträtten, behörighetslagen, undervisningsreformer, likalönen samt ekonomiska och sociala förändringar. Därför är det angeläget att se efter, i vad mån kvinnorna varit med och drivit fram dessa och om de sedan fått den nytta och glädje av dem, som de förväntat sig.Efterhand har uppgiften utvidgats till att även gälla organisationernas betydelse för medlemmarna själva samt det egna lokalsamhället och hembygden. / digitalisering@umu

This essay aims to deal with prevailing beliefs about men and women's responsibilities during the Second World War in Sweden. This has been done through a case study of the female organization Fredrika Bremerförbundet in the town of Karlstad. The aim has been to determine whether the members of Fredrika Bremerförbundet had a will to work within the areas considered to belong to the men during the period. In order to answer this, the paper has examined how the preparedness period influenced the organizations attitude to female work outside of the home and also how the organization discussed female political influence. The theoretical approach has been Yvonne Hirdman's theory that there has been a gender contract at various times through history. The contract stands for the current agreement with regards to the responsibilities of men and women in a society. The point of interest has been the housewife contract that she sees as current during the Second World War. The housewife contract refers to the fact that the women's responsibilities during this period consisted of household duties and social work, while their husbands spent their time in the public life and held the political power. The study has shown that Fredrika Bremerförbundet in Karlstad had an ambition to break the housewife contract, both with regards to trying to make women work in public and also to have influence in politics. However, as shown in previous research, that will also be discussed, it has been seen that the housewife contract remained. For example, women's work in the home and with children limited their opportunities to engage outside the household. In summary, it has nevertheless been possible to see a seed for a new contract where the women also has a place in public life outside of their home and to take part in politics. As a result it is possible to see, already during the period of 1939-1945, traces of a contract that is closer to equality.

This thesis explores fictional representations of women’s reading practices in the early novels of Fredrika Bremer. I examine these in relation to the negotiations of reading habits in Sweden and Europe during the 1830’s, particularly pertaining to questions of gender, intimacy, desire, and corporeality. The material consists of three novels (The Family H***, The Neighbours and Home), in which the motif of women’s reading plays a significant part. In the four chapters of the thesis, I analyse key aspects of gender and reading in Bremer’s novels: 1) the popular stereotype of obsessive novel reading, and how this specific practice is portrayed in relation to the duties of a wife and mother, as well as to intimacy and secrecy; 2) representations of corrupted or illicit readers, whose reading practices disturbs the confines of nineteenth-century femininity; and 3) how these characters may challenge or bypass the restrictions of gender roles through fictional engagement. The thesis argues that Bremer’s representations of women’s reading are more complex and varied than has previously been recognized, and it reveals new aspects of these representations, such as the significance of intimacy with oneself and others in Bremer’s depictions of silent reading practices, and the transgressive power of feminine empathy. / <p>Camilla Wallin Bergström heter numera Camilla Wallin Lämsä</p>

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This study's purpose is to analyze the Fredrika Bremer-association’s way ofrepresenting women, departing from its own and others’ stories, published byits own magazine Dagny: Månadsblad för sociala och literära intressen during the years 1889, 1894 and 1899. The years picked were when the Fredrika Bremer-association was in sole command of Dagny. The study intends to answer the question on how Fredrika Bremer-association writes and therefore represents their outwardly directed image on women and femininity, based on stories with entertaining purposes and their opinions onother authors' stories that are published in Dagny. The study uses aqualitative text analysis, with selection based on the stories’ content. The content also established seven themes to base the analysis on. The study finds that the image of women, presented by Fredrika Bremer-associations in their magazine Dagny, depending on religious motives is that of a natural subordination to men. They defend women’s rightful freedom, but with the word freedom meaning taking responsibility for their natural tasks as women and therefore stay true to their ideal self.

In the early 1860´s, the author and opinion former Fredrika Bremer made a large donation of books to Högre lärarinneseminariet, which is the first governmental institute for higher education of women in Sweden. The aim of this thesis is to describe the collection of donated books as well as to extract information regarding Bremer's international network of contacts, her views on women's education and her relation to Högre lärarinneseminariet. Furthermore, the aim is to highlight the unique relationship between Fredrika Bremer's private collection of the books and the library of Högre lärarinneseminariet from a gender perspective. A handwritten list of the 321 titles constitutin the donation has been preserved in the seminar archive and three quarters of the books have been re-discovered in a bookcase at Årsta castle. The donation is characterized by its double origin as stamps and personal dedications remain as permanent traces in the books. The archive list of the donation defines the scope of the current thesis. A sub-population of the books was selected for a more thorough investigation which was performed according to a bibliographical form. By considering each individual book as an artefact and the donation as its context, information was derived both from the individual book as well as from the book in relation to the collection as a whole. The investigation shows that the collection reflects Fredrika Bremer's areas of interest, her travels and her contacts with other writers throughout the world. The donation of the books, as well as the Iduna statue which she also donated, confirms that she saw her vision of a college being realized in Högre lärarinneseminariet. She was also aware of her own efforts for women's education and emancipation, and her significance as a role model for future students at the school. There is a high cultural history value in the preservation of Fredrika Bremer's book collection and it is desirable to make the collection more accessible for research.

The Swedish author Fredrika Bremer's novel Grannarne was published in 1837, and the English translation The Neighbours was published in London in 1842. This novel as well as other novels by Bremer which were published in English in the 1840s, were widely read and they were very popular with readers as well as with literary critics. As has been noted formerly, there are certain striking likenesses between The Neighbours and Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, published in 1847. In this essay, a comparative study is made of motifs found in both novels, such as "The Byronic Hero", and "The Strange Woman" as well as structures such as "the acceptance of guilt", followed by "judgement" and the possibility of "mercy", which are also found in both novels. In the last chapter, there is a discussion of the characters' perception of their respective worlds as primarily conditioned by religion, and how this is manifested in the previous chapters of the essay. A connection between Bertha in Jane Eyre and Hagar in The Neighbours is explored and a suggestion is made of a possible connection between Hagar and the ancient poet Sappho.