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Danish Suffragettes’ Transnational Engagement

Project Description

This research investigates Danish suffragettes’ transnational engagement in the beginning of the 20th century. Despite the Nordic countries’ early introduction of universal enfranchisement, we know very little about the Danish (and Nordic) engagement in a transnational context. The analysis is based on readings of organizational periodicals of the most influential Danish women’s organizations in the period of 1888-1909 tracing contours of this particular engagement. This project documents that the periodicals offer a window for better understanding the political engagement with the internationalization of feminism and the ways women were framed as empowered political subjects before the actual enfranchisement was introduced.

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Christina Fiig

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