An important theme in Finnish Women’s Literature is the criticism of child-rearing. The idyllic surface is broken, and no family member is exempt...
A number of Swedish female poets in the 1980s were accused of writing impenetrably, but they become the central figures of the period. Ann...
The Swedish author Carola Hansson’s oeuvre is at the centre of the aesthetic turn of the tide and epistemological turbulence of the 1980s, but her...
There has been talk of a turning point in the literary climate of Sweden around 1975. New poets make their debut in part thanks to state...
Kerstin Ekman is a literary successor to Elin Wägner, and is close to her biting criticism of society and strong pathos. Her oeuvre began with a...
During the 1970s, Agneta Pleijel was one of the leaders of the generation of critics that stood up for a new literature that was to be better...
Eeva Joenpelto, Anu Kaipainen, and Eila Pennanen have all focused on women’s lives, on patriarchy, and on gender roles in their prose works,...
Existential Resistance Stories
Tales from the Outskirts of Society
"The first Bomb detonated at the ‘Trinity’ site was called a ‘baby’. When the scientific fathers of the Manhattan-project telegraphed President...
A Literary Debate on Motherhood
The Women Writer’s Group in Ostrobothnia
