Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond

Josefina Erikson is Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.Lenita Freidenvall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: A historical and institutional perspective on women’s political inclusion.- Chapter 2: Resisting democratisation: Arguments against female enfranchisement among members of the Swedish Parliament 1866–1918.- Chapter 3: Struggles, resources and strategies: Portraits of six Swedish women suffrage activists.- Chapter 4: Intersectionality, identity and women’s suffrage.- Chapter 5: Why were so few women elected? Political party strategies in Denmark and Sweden during the first parliamentary election after women’s enfranchisement.- Chapter 6: Women’s movements local election campaigns in Norway.- Chapter 7: Practising the right to vote: Female Voters and Male Inertia in Iceland, 1915–1944.- 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.