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- Ahlbäck, Anders, et al.
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A Nordic model of gender and military work? Labour demand, gender equality and women’s integration in the armed forces of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
- 2024
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In: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 72:1, s. 49-66
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article traces the political process towards full formal integration of women in the military professions in Scandinavia and Finland, investigating the shifting roles played by military labour demands and politics of gender equality. It provides the first comparative overview of these developments in the Nordic region. The analysis demonstrates the importance of historical continuity in women’s military participation. Due to military labour demands, women were throughout the post-war decades recruited into a range of auxiliary, voluntary and hybrid capacities in the Scandinavian armed forces. The reforms opening the military professions to women in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the 1970s were the outcome of a double crisis, as military needs for the regulation of these women’s organisational status coincided with new political demands for gender equality in the labour market. Corresponding reforms in Finland were delayed by the country’s lack of continuity in women’s military participation as well as its sufficient supply of male military personnel. A common Nordic model of gender and military work nonetheless emerged in the 1990s, marked by equal rights to military participation for women on a voluntary basis, combined with mandatory military conscription for men.
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- Ahlbäck, Anders, et al.
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Introduction
- 2014
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In: Gender, war and peace. - Joensuu : University Press of Eastern Finland. - 9789525934601 ; , s. 6-22
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- Ahlbäck, Anders, et al.
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Värnpliktsstrecket - en självklarhet som vändes till sin motsats?
- 2019
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In: Arbetarhistoria. - 0281-7446. ; :170-171, s. 30-35
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- Completed military service as a condition for suffrage – a matter of course that was reversed?As a condition for male suffrage in Sweden between 1909 and 1922 citizens were required to have completed military service. This article investigates how this restriction on voting rights, introduced more orless unanimously, was abolished equally unanimously and with little debate only 13 years later. Two main reasons are pointed out. Firstly, since women were given suffrage in 1921, this restriction affected men only and was therefore suddenly perceived to be an unjust discrimination against the latter. Secondly, this restriction was closely linked to the particular political situation in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century. For decades the twin issues of military and suffrage reform had been interlinked and thus blocked each other until they were resolved in 1901 and 1909 respectively. Once they had been resolved, the political connection between them rapidly became redundant, as did the symbolic and practical expression of this connection, namely completed military service as a condition for suffrage.
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- Arnberg, Klara, 1979-, et al.
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På hemmafronten intet nytt : Kommersiell kvinnlighet under svensk beredskap, 1939–1945
- 2021
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In: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X .- 2002-4827. ; 141:3, s. 476-509
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The article studies commercial actors and advertisements in the Swedish weekly press in order to trace how the transformed gender roles during the Second World War were handled and negotiated in the commercial sphere. Two key dimensions of consumer society constitute the objects of study: 1) the weekly press’ and advertising industry’s actions and promotion of the role of female consumers during the war; and 2) how commercial advertisements represented female consumers. The weeklies we study, Svensk damtidning, Hemmets Veckotidning and Vecko-revyn reached national readerships and were directed towards households and especially women. The paper concludes that although women were described as essential to national defenseby keeping up home front morale, the war was largely absent in the advertisements. Instead, the latter tended to remind consumers of peacetime affluence and family-based gender ideals. This meant that while many women’s everyday lives changed dramatically as a consequence of national wartime mobilization, their desires were commercially channeled just as they had been in peacetime: toward looking after their appearance, caring for the household and choosing the right consumer goods.
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- Arnberg, Klara, 1979-, et al.
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På hemmafronten intet nytt : Kommersiell kvinnlighet under svensk beredskap, 1939-1945
- 2021
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In: Historisk Tidskrift. - : Svenska Historiska Föreningen. - 0345-469X .- 2002-4827. ; 141:3, s. 476-509
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- I denna artikel studerar vi konstruktionen av kvinnliga konsumenter i andra världskrigets svenska nationella mobilisering. Analysen bygger på en studie av reklam- och veckopressbranschernas aktörer, liksom av annonser i veckopressen. Vi visar hur dessa kommersiella aktörer aktivt riktade sina budskap till olika grup-per av kvinnor, samt hur kvinnor uppmanades att göra sin plikt gentemot nationen genom att upprätthålla vardagen och fortsätta konsumera. Trots stora förändring-ar i människors liv, var till synes intet nytt på den kommersiella hemmafronten.
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