Memory Work, Memory Politics and the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage in Sweden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19455042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulla Manns (0000-0002-3918-8413, Södertörn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-88 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | L Homme (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0439-4216 • E-ISSN: 1953-8103 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.14220/lhom.2021.32.1.73 |
| OpenAlex | W3183243582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article explores memory politics in the context of the centennial of women’s suffrage, focusing on the jubilee for democracy in 2018–2022, initiated and organised by the Swedish parliament. The article pays particular attention to how the centennial celebration of votes for women is represented and materialised during the jubilee. Similar to its neighboring country, Norway, Sweden has chosen to widen the scope of its celebrations beyond women’s suffrage. Instead, democracy, its values, history and current challenges take centre stage. The years between 1918 and 1922 are portrayed as a period of democratic breakthrough, even as the birth of Sweden as a modern nation. In this memory production, “votes for women” have an important symbolic value, not least with respect to visual representations, such as pictures and photos. At the same time, contemporary gender related issues and feminist historiography are pushed to the margins
Archaeology · centenary · Centennial · Democracy · Epistemology · feminist historiography · memory politics · Memory work · National identity · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Sociology · Suffrage · Swedish Parliament · visual representation · Women's suffrage · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |