Suffrage and Its Legacy in the Nordics and Beyond: Gender, Institutional Constraints and Feminist Strategies

In: Gender and Politics

Abstract

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 norms in gender sensitising parliaments -- Chapter 11: Conclusions: Theorising gendered institutional constraints and feminist strategies for institutional change.