Finnish writer Minna Canth became a single mother, businesswoman, and author all at once. Instead of being satisfied with the simple and retired...
Existential Resistance Stories
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
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...
Female poets of the early twentieth century discreetly described sexual experiences in terms of grass that smoulders or is flattened like a mat...
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...
Women writers of the so-called primitivist movement write about lawless passion. The female characters of their novels often pay with their lives...
With Män kan inte våldtas (1975; Men Cannot Be Raped; Eng. tr. Manrape), Märta Tikkanen hurled herself headlong into the ongoing...
Swedish author Sonja Åkesson made her debut in 1957 with Situationer (Situations) and published one other collection during the 1950s. In...
A man writes when he wishes and is inspired to do so, a woman, at least one with children and a household, when she can and has time, happy and...
Much of the literature written by women after World War I bespoke a reaction to a new trend in sexual morality. The new age, the new woman, and...
