Rösträtt för kvinnor

Rösträtt för kvinnor ('Suffrage for Women') is a journal published by the Swedish National Association for Women's Suffrage. It was first published in 1912 and the last issue was published in 1919, when the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament) decided to extend universal suffrage to men and women. The journal's motto was: "We can never do as much for a great cause as a great cause can do for us."[1]

Rösträtt för kvinnor
PublisherSwedish National Association for Women's Suffrage
First issue1 March 1912 (1912-03-01)
Final issue
Number		1 December 1919 (1919-12-01)
Volume 8, number 15
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

History
First page of the final issue in 1919, focusing entirely on women's newly won suffrage.

The National Association for Women's Suffrage (Landsföreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt, LKPR) had been using the Fredrika Bremer Association's journal Dagny som as a mouthpiece. Cooperation between the two could be problematic at times; LKPR was against the fact that the editors of Dagny also allowed opponents of suffrage to publish in the journal. The collaboration ended in 1911, and the following year LKPR published the first issue of Rösträtt för kvinnor.[2]

Its first editor was Elisabeth Krey-Lange.[3] After that, Ester Brisman was editor of the magazine from 1913 to 1914 and editor in chief from 1913 to 1919.[4] Most of the most prominent figures in the Swedish women's movement contributed articles, including Gulli Petrini, Anna Lindhagen, Ellen Key, Lydia Wahlström, Elsa Collin, Karolina Widerström, Anna Bugge-Wicksell, and Signe Bergman.

Eight years after the journal's launch, in May 1919, Parliament voted to extend the right to vote to women.[5] The June 1919 issue was devoted entirely to suffrage reform and women's new role as citizens. The last issue of the journal was published in December 1919.

References

Notes
  1. "Så fick vi kvinnlig rösträtt i Sverige". Historiska Media (in Swedish). 2021-12-19. Archived from the original on 2022-07-03. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  2. Wistrand, Birgitta (2009). Sveriges moderata kvinnoförbund, den första självständiga politiska kvinnoorganisationen: framgångsrik organisering trots uppförsbacke och motvind (in Swedish). pp. 33–34. ISBN 9789163351952. OCLC 938950778.
  3. Lundgren, Kristina (2020-03-02). "Elisabeth Johanna Lovisa Krey-Lange". Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon. Translated by Margaret Myers. Archived from the original on 2022-05-21. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. "Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek: Redaktörer och skribenter". Gothenburg University Library (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2022-07-09. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  5. Zachrisson, Lotta; Wikén, Erik (2019-05-24). "Kvinnlig rösträtt fyller 100 år". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2022-06-07.

Sources
  • Nordenstam, Anna, ed. (2014). Nya röster: Svenska kvinnotidskrifter under 150 år (in Swedish). Gidlunds förlag. pp. 41–42, 70. ISBN 9789178448920.
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