Husmodern

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Husmodern
CategoriesWomen's Magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Founder
  • Thora Holm
  • Elsa Nyblom
Founded1917
Final issue1988
Company
  • Husmodern
  • Åhlén & Åkerlund
Country Sweden
Based in Stockholm
Language Swedish
ISSN 0018-8026
OCLC 1027568168

Husmodern (Swedish : The Housewife) was a women's magazine which was published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1917 and 1988.

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History and profile

Husmodern was started in Stockholm in 1917 and was published by a company with the same name. [1] The founding organization was Martta. [2] The subtitle of the magazine was de svenska husmödrarnas tidning (Swedish : the Swedish housewives' newspaper). [1] Its founders were Thora Holm and the journalist Elsa Nyblom. [3] The latter was also the first editor of Husmodern. [1] The magazine was acquired by the Åhlén & Åkerlund company in 1920. [1] Following this its subtitle was redesigned as tidskrift för hemmet och kvinnan (Swedish : magazine for the home and the woman). [4] A pattern department was also formed belonging to the magazine after its acquisition by Åhlén & Åkerlund [5] which became part of Bonnier Group in 1929. [3] [6] The magazine delivered a supplement entitled Stil-mönster (Swedish : Style-Patterns) which contained samples of the Swedish patterns between 1941 and 1982. [5]

Husmodern came out weekly throughout its run. [1] The magazine was among the popular periodicals in the country [7] and reached its highest circulation in 1970 selling 290,000 copies. [8] Its title was Nya Husmodern (Swedish : Modern Housewife) from 1982 to its closure in 1988. [1]

Husmodern had a Finnish edition entitled Emäntälehti. [2] Some issues of Husmodern were archived by Carolina Rediviva library in Uppsala, Sweden. [9]

Audience, content and editors

In the initial years Husmodern targeted rural women. [4] The target audience of the magazine was middle-class housewives living in cities from 1938. [9]

The coverage of Husmodern was expanded from 1920, and it contained many appealing advertisements. [4] It frequently featured life of Carl Emil Pettersson, a Swedish adevnturer, in the 1930s. [10] In the period between 1930 and 1950 the first ten of its total 60–80 pages included the advertisements of household appliances, make up products, food, language courses and bikes. [8] One of the frequent topics was dressmaking patterns during the World War II period. [3] In addition, Husmodern was one of the Swedish publications which featured news materials provided by the Swedish Intelligence Agency during the same era. [11] The magazine also included the following sections: recipes, home decoration, news, and short stories. [3]

One of the editors-in-chief of Husmodern was Fanny Hult. [2] Another editor-in-chief was Amelia Adamo who had worked as a reporter for the magazine. [6]

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