Elisabeth "Lisbetha" Olsdotter was a Swedish woman, who was executed on a number of different charges after having dressed as a man, served as a soldier and married a woman. On 24 October 1679 Svea Hovrätt in Stockholm brought the charges, earlier raised in the court of Långhundra Häradsting.
Catharina Ahlgren was a Swedish proto-feminist poet and publisher, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden.
Johanna "Jeanette" Charlotta Granberg, also known by her married name Stjernström and by the pseudonym of Georges Malméen, was a Swedish writer, a playwright, a feminist and a translator, who wrote plays for mainly the theatre Mindre teatern in Stockholm in the mid-19th century. She was praised as a great dramatic by her contemporaries.
Ellen Fries was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883. She was also involved in founding several women's organizations.
Yvonne Svanström,, is an associate professor and head of the Department of Economic History at Stockholm University.
Anna Margareta "Ann-Margret" Holmgren,, was a Swedish author, feminist, suffragist, and pacifist.
Gertrud Virginia Adelborg was a Swedish teacher, feminist and leading member of the women's rights movement.
Eva Moberg (1932–2011) was a Swedish author, playwright, and debater.
The status and rights of Women in Sweden has changed several times throughout the history of Sweden. These changes have been affected by the culture, religion and laws of Sweden, as well as social discourses like the strong feminist movement.
The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit international association dedicated to raising awareness and inquiry of feminist economics. It has approximately six hundred members in sixty-four countries. The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics. Since 1998 IAFFE has held NGO special consultative status.
Rhonda Dawn Sharp, is an adjunct professor of economics at the University of South Australia and project team leader and chief researcher of the university's Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies.
Events from the year 1864 in Sweden
Hilda Augusta Amanda Kerfstedt, née Hallström, was a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. She was a popular and noted writer in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden, and participated in the public debate. She was also engaged in the movement for women's rights, and active in the Fredrika Bremer Association and Married Woman's Property Rights Association. As a feminist, she focused on the debate around sexual equality, and was critical to the contemporary sexual double standards for men and women. As such, she was one of the participants in the Nordic sexual morality debate, the public debate in Swedish papers, books and plays, which took place during the 1880s. Kerfstedt was a member of the women's association Nya Idun and one of its first committee members. She was the editor of the feminist paper Dagny, the publication of the Fredrika Bremer Association, in 1888–1891. She was especially noted within the debate on children's literature.
Eva Maria Meyersson Milgrom is a Swedish-born American social scientist publishing both in economic and sociology academic journals. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University in 1992.
Lars Lönnroth is a Swedish literary scholar.
Yvonne Hirdman is a Swedish historian and gender researcher. She has received many awards for her work including the August Prize.
The Chief of the Army Staff is the professional head of the Swedish Army Staff. The post was created in 1936 with colonel Helge Jung as the first incumbent. The post disappeared in 1994 and was reintroduced in 2019 when the new Army Staff was established.
Sigrid Agneta Sofia Elmblad, born Sigrid Agneta Sofia Pettersson, was a Swedish journalist, poet, translator and writer, who translated Der Ring des Nibelungen into Swedish and produced the first Swedish translation of the song of Saint Lucy. she produced her first poems under the pseudonym Toivo. Born in Stockholm to a Swedish father and Finnish mother, she was an early member of the Nya Idun society, rising to be chair between 1918 and 1921. After working as a journalist for the newspaper Dagens Nyheter, she travelled extensively with her husband, the opera singer Johannes Elmblad. While living in Bayreuth, she developed her interest in the music of Richard Wagner, which led her to translate his works into Swedish, including Parsifal in 1917, and the work of other German composers like Robert Schumann. She also wrote fiction for adults and children, as well as biographies for figures like Jenny Lind in 1920. She died in Sweden six years later.
Lieutenant General Sven Philip Salander was a senior Swedish Army officer. He served as Commanding General of the Commanding General, V Military District from 1947 to 1959.
