Fredrika Bremer Association

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Agda Montelius and Gertrud Adelborg presents the petition for women’s suffrage to prime minister Erik Gustaf Boström in 1899.

The Fredrika Bremer Association (

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It is traditionally the foremost organisation of the bourgeois-liberal women's movement in Sweden. It has always been open to both women and men. It is a member of the International Alliance of Women, and is a sister association of the Danish Women's Society, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights and the Icelandic Women's Rights Association.

Activity

The FBF works with forming public opinion in favor of gender equality by information and activities, and by handing out money from various funds and scholarships. It collaborates with other organisations with similar goals both nationally and internationally. The FBF had a representative in the governmental council of equality.

It is a member of the

ECOSOC. It was also a member of the Joint Organization of Nordic Women's Rights Associations
.

History

The organisation was founded in 1884 by a group largely consisting of the board of the

women's magazine Home Review.[1] It consisted of the feminist Sophie Adlersparre,[2] Ellen Anckarsvärd
,
emancipating unmarried women from wardship of their male relatives. It also led to the foundation of Gothenburg's Women's Association in Sweden's second city of Gothenburg
, which was founded as a local answer to the FBF.

The purpose of the organisation was to support women's rights, to inform women of their rights and to encourage them to use them. At the time of its foundation, for example, the focus was to inform women of their rights to serve in the boards of public institutions, and of the rights of women of a certain income to vote in municipal elections and to use those rights.

women suffrage.[3] In 1899, a delegation from the FBF presented a suggestion of woman suffrage to prime minister Erik Gustaf Boström. The delegation was headed by Agda Montelius, accompanied by Gertrud Adelborg
, who had written the demand. This was the first time the Swedish women's movement themselves had officially presented a demand for suffrage.

In 1890, the

Married Woman Property Association
was merged in the association.

In 1937, the FBF founded the Kommittén för ökad kvinnorepresentation (Literary: 'The committee for increased women's represenation') to lobby for more women in political office and particularly more women in parliament.[4]

Publications

The FBF published the

women's magazine Dagny, which succeeded Adlersparre's Home Review in 1886. This publication was renamed Hertha
in 1914 and was the oldest women's magazine in the world when it was discontinued in 1999 (it was revived in 2001).

Presidents

References

  1. ^ "Historia". fredrikabremer.se (in Swedish). Fredrika Bremer Association. Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. ISBN 0-8032-4750-8
    . Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Lundin, Claës [in Swedish] (1890). "XXIX. Kvinlig verksamhet". Nya Stockholm (in Swedish). p. 624. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  4. ^ Rönnbäck, Josefin, '"Utan kvinnor inget folkstyre": en historisk exposé över kampen för ökad kvinnorepresentation i Sverige', Tidskrift för genusvetenskap., 2010:3, s. 61-89, 2010
  • Stig Hadenius, Torbjörn Nilsson & Gunnar Åselius (in Swedish): Sveriges historia. Vad varje svensk bör veta (History of Sweden. What every Swede should know)

External links

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