TY - BOOK ID - 103578148 TI - Framtidens kvinnor : mognad och medborgarskap i svenska flickboÌcker, 1832-1921 PY - 2020 SN - 9789170613319 9170613311 9170618313 PB - GoÌteborg : Makadam foÌrlag, DB - UniCat KW - Young adult literature, Swedish KW - Children's literature, Swedish KW - Girls in literature. KW - Young women in literature. KW - Young women KW - Girls KW - History and criticism. KW - Books and reading KW - History. KW - Gunnar Örnulf KW - Elna Wide KW - Gerda Meyerson KW - Hedda Anderson KW - Hedvig Svedenborg KW - Carl Sundbeck KW - Ulrika von Strussenfelt KW - Elisabeth Kuylenstierna-Wenster KW - Cecilia Milow KW - Ellen Idström KW - Women’s Suffrage KW - Girls’ Education KW - Citizenship KW - Women Authors KW - Intersectionality KW - Girls’ Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103578148 AB - The woman of the future - what would she be like? And what was her place in society? In Swedish girls' books of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these questions are explored through stories about girls' upbringing and education. In parallel with the breakthrough of female novelists in the 1830s, a literature for young women also began to emerge that described a motley existence of everyday play and dangerous adventures, of studies and professional dreams. These books, which were aimed directly at girls, wanted to both discuss and shape the female citizens of the future through literature. This study shows how the Swedish girls' book and its representations of young women became part of the increasingly intense debate on women's civil rights from the 1830s to the 1920s. The genre was a forum for writers with different political views, but they were united by the fact that in their texts they let the young woman be at the center of the great social upheavals of the day. Domestic girls, manly women students and shopping coquettes all shape different paths towards adulthood and into modern life. In the girls' books, the young woman becomes at the same time a bearer of nostalgic memories of a bygone world and a promise of a more equal, peaceful future. ER -