Expanding Political Capital: Why Social Democratic Women Participated in Middle-Class Feminist Educational Organisations in Sweden c.1890-1910

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  • Author(s): Anne Berg (ORCID Anne Berg (ORCID 0000-0003-0797-4871); Johanna Ringarp (ORCID Johanna Ringarp (ORCID 0000-0003-4398-6925)
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    History of Education. 2024 53(1):48-66.
  • Publication Date:
    2024
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Evaluative
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      19
    • Subject Terms:
      Foreign Countries; Females; Educational History; Working Class; Feminism; Middle Class; Democratic Values; Organizations (Groups); Clubs; Educational Objectives; Political Attitudes; Political Issues; Social Change; Activism
    • Subject Terms:
      Sweden
    • Accession Number:
      10.1080/0046760X.2023.2291557
    • ISSN:
      0046-760X
      1464-5130
    • Abstract:
      This article seeks to introduce a new historical explanation as to why left-wing working-class women engaged in liberal, middle-class organisations during the first wave of feminism. The article specifically deals with middle-class associations and clubs that had educational purposes. Instead of focusing on the larger explanatory scheme of the power of patriarchal societal structures or bourgeois feminisms as a hegemonic force, the account revolves around the political educational functions of liberal feminist engagement for some politically active social democratic women in Sweden. The case of social democratic women who entered the liberal middle class educational organisation Tolfterna (the Dozen) is the point of departure for a micro-historical analysis of the political capital accumulation practices that class collaboration entailed. Finally, the article explores how working-class women's choices and actions can be considered a group-specific strategy to expand their political resources to attain what is called feminist liberal political capital.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1427109