The Invisible Work of Intellectual Advocacy
Female Volunteering for the Socialist Cause in Cold War Iceland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7150896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rósa Magnúsdóttir (0000-0002-7827-1447, University of Iceland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 581-594 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s096077732400064x |
| OpenAlex | W4409618276 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
This article focuses on the writings of female Icelandic socialist intellectuals and activists during the twentieth century and analyses how they perceived of time spent on work dedicated to the socialist education of the Icelandic working class. It will neither try to evaluate the impact of intellectuals’ work, nor will it attempt to deconstruct the class dichotomy and power structures inherent in intellectuals advocating on behalf of workers. Instead, the focus here is on intellectual women's conceptualisation of time devoted to advocacy, broadly defined, in light of their gender, authority, and privilege. In Iceland, as in many other places, writers and intellectuals were at the forefront of the ideological battle between communism and capitalism that took place during the Cold War. Earlier, in the interwar period, intellectuals also led the way in terms of advocating for Soviet style socialism in Iceland, and they took their role as educators very seriously
Cold war · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
The Intellectuals and Socialism
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Winter Kept Us Warm
Longer, broader, deeper, and more personal – the renewal of labour history in the Nordic countries
Pleasures in Socialism
“To be a woman is hard work”. The Changing Landscape of Gendered Emotions in the Late Soviet Union
Running with the Hounds’
Women in Diplomacy
The 1975 Icelandic ‘Women’s day off’ in Nordic print media
Unpaid work of love
Gendered Activism and the Politics of Women's Work
The Pilgrimage to Russia
How work constrains leisure
Invisible Work
Leisure as an American and Soviet Value
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |