In Swedish women’s prose of the 1980s, we find an attitude that is focused on the self and is explicitly critical of language, as well as a...
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
The gloominess of post-war Finland created a deep thirst for art and literature. A great deal of poetry was published and an unusual percentage of...
During the 1920s, Finnish Katri Vala was the central figure of a literary group called the Torchbearers, which represented the first generation of...
Many women writers in Sweden in the 1970s wanted to speak for themselves and deliver testimony of their own experiences in their own voice. In...
The writing of Rut Hillarp is suffused by refined erotic mysticism, far from the primitivist sexual Romanticism of the 1930s modernists. Her...
Female poets of the early twentieth century discreetly described sexual experiences in terms of grass that smoulders or is flattened like a mat...
In Edith Øberg's literary novels, women’s relationships with each other increasingly come to the fore as men recede into the background. Øberg is...
Coming-of-age novels by women after World War I often have a significant lesbian theme. The role model is frequently a single, independent career...
Sår som ennu blør (Wounds That Still Bleed), a novel in verse by Karo Espeseth, is an account of a sexual sadist and his relationship...
Nuoren opettajattaren varaventtiili (The Young Teacher’s Safety Valve) by Hilja Valtonen was the first modern Finnish light novel, a...
Finnish female authors were active participants in the 1930s discussion of birth control and abortion that gathered momentum during the early...
