Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond: Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies [Hardcover]

This book reflects on the centennial of women's suffrage in the Nordic region and beyond, by exploring its relevance to political gender equality today and the conditions for feminist institutional change. The book brings together historians and political scientists to provide a long-term historical perspective that lays the groundwork for theoretical development. In this regard, the book makes two key contributions: it furthers our understanding of different types of gendered institutional constraints on womens political inclusion and elaborates feminist institutional strategies to counter these constraints.

Chapter 1: Introduction: A historical and institutional perspective on womens political inclusion.- Chapter 2: Resisting democratisation: Arguments against female enfranchisement among members of the Swedish Parliament 18661918.- Chapter 3: Struggles, resources and strategies: Portraits of six Swedish women suffrage activists.- Chapter 4: Intersectionality, identity and womens suffrage.- Chapter 5: Why were so few women elected? Political party strategies in Denmark and Sweden during the first parliamentary election after womens enfranchisement.- Chapter 6: Womens movements local election campaigns in Norway.- Chapter 7: Practising the right to vote: Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 19151944.- Chapter 8: Her rights at work  women in parliament.- Chapter 9: Still signs of masculine norms in the parliamentary workplace? Political gender equality in Finland and Sweden after a century of universal suffrage.- Chapter 10: Critical culture: The role of institutional normsin gender sensitising parliaments.- Chapter 11: Conclusions: Theorising gendered institutional constraints and feminist strategies for institutional change.

Josefina Erikson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.