 The cover of the first issue of Hertha | |
| Editor | Camilla Wagner (2019) |
|---|---|
| Categories | Women's magazine |
| Publisher | Fredrika Bremer Association |
| Founded | 1914 |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
| Website | https://fredrikabremer.se/tidskriften-hertha/ |
Hertha is a Swedish-language women's magazine published by the Fredrika Bremer Association, named after Swedish writer and feminist Fredrika Bremer's novel Hertha . It has been in circulation since 1914.
Hertha was founded in 1914 [1] and was published regularly until 1999. During this period it came out monthly. [2] Between 2001 and 2005 it was published digitally only, and in 2009 an anniversary issue was published in print. Since 2015, two issues are published per year. [3] It is the world's oldest feminist magazine, a continuation of Home Review founded in 1859. [4] [5]
Hertha was the successor to the magazine Dagny , which was started when Sophie Adlersparre founded the Fredrika Bremer Association in 1884. The magazine's history dates back to 1859, when Sophie Adlersparre and Rosalie Roos published Tidskrift för hemmet ('Home Review') to "give knowledge and insights to women in the spiritual sphere".
Hertha, like its predecessors Home Review and Dagny, contains association announcements, articles on current social, cultural, economic and ethical issues, and articles on gender equality.
The magazine's editor from its inception until 1932 was Ellen Kleman. [3] Among the writers for Hertha during its first decades were Elin Wägner, Emilia Fogelklou, Lydia Wahlström, Klara Johanson, Gurli Linder and Ida von Plomgren. [6] [7] Major contributors in the 1960s were Birgitta Dahl and other women from the Social Democratic Party. [8] In the 2000s, contributors include Lawen Mohtadi , Ebba Witt-Brattström, Kristina Hultman , Barbro Hedvall, Kajsa Ekis Ekman and Parvin Ardalan (in the 2009–2014 print editions). Since 2019, Camilla Wagner has been the editor-in-chief. [9]
Fredrika Bremer was a Finnish-born Swedish writer and reformer. Her Sketches of Everyday Life were wildly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1840s and 1850s and she is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school. It also inspired Sophie Adlersparre to begin publishing the Home Review, Sweden's first women's magazine as well as the later magazine Hertha. In 1884, she became the namesake of the Fredrika Bremer Association, the first women's rights organization in Sweden.
Ellen Karolina Sofia Key was a Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.
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Rosalie Ulrika Olivecrona, née Roos, was a Swedish feminist activist and writer. She is one of the three great pioneers of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden, alongside Fredrika Bremer and Sophie Adlersparre.
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Agda Georgina Dorothea Alexandra Montelius née Reuterskiöld was a Swedish philanthropist and feminist. She was a leading figure of the Swedish philanthropy, active for the struggle of women's suffrage, and chairman of the Fredrika Bremer Association in 1903–1920.
Ellen Fries was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883. She also founded several women's organizations.
The Fredrika Bremer Association is the oldest women's rights organisation in Sweden. The association stands for an inclusive, intersectional and progressive liberal feminism, and advocates for women's rights and LGBT rights.
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 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.
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Asta Ekenvall was a Swedish librarian, one of the founders of the Kvinnohistorisk arkiv of the University of Gothenburg and a pioneer in research and philosophy of women's history.
Hilma Johanna Ulrika Borelius (1869–1932) was a literary historian who became the first female docent at Lund University in 1910 and a substitute professor in 1922. In 1931 she published a history of Scandinavian literature in German: Die Nordischen Literaturen. Handbuch der Literaturwissenschaft. A strong supporter of the suffrage movement, she chaired the Lund women's association, Föreningen för kvinnans politiska rösträtt i Lund, from its establishment in 1903 until 1908. Borelius frequently contributed articles about female authors to the women's suffrage journals Dagny and Hertha. Throughout her life, she did all she could to strengthen the status of women in Swedish universities.
Kristina Quint was a Swedish educator, children's newspaper editor, suffragette, and feminist. She was the founder and editor of one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden, Kamratposten. An active member of the country's women's suffrage movement, Quint served as the deputy chair of Moderata Kvinnors Rösträttsförening since its inception in 1917.
Sigrid Amalia Leijonhufvud was a Swedish author, historian, and feminist, who is best known for authoring biographies of historical women. She was granted membership in the Samfundet De Nio and was awarded the Swedish royal medal Litteris et Artibus in recognition of her writing career.
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Rösträtt för kvinnor was a journal published by the Swedish National Association for Women's Suffrage. It was first published in 1912 and the last issue was published in 1919, when the Riksdag decided to extend universal suffrage to men and women. The journal's motto was: "We can never do as much for a great cause as a great cause can do for us."
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