Tidevarvet

Tidevarvet (meaning The Epoch in English) was a Swedish weekly political and feminist magazine existed between November 1923 and December 1936.[1]

Tidevarvets editorial office in 1935

History and profile

Tidevarvet was established in 1923.[2] The first issue appeared on 24 November 1923.[3] The founders were five women, who were called the Fogelstad group: Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, who was a medical doctor, Elisabeth Tamm, a politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author.[4][5] The founders had a liberal political stance.[5] It was started on the initiatives of the Liberal Women's National Association, which also established by the group.[6]

Tidevarvet stated its mission in the first issue as follows: the magazine would be a “forum, an arena in which men and women can work side by side to forge a broad-minded vision and find ways of implementing it in legislation and community life.”[7] The magazine was published on a weekly basis.[8][9] It adopted a radical political[9] and pacifist stance.[8] Elisabeth Tamm subsidised the magazine.[10]

The launching editor of the magazine was Ellen Hagen[5] whose term was between 1923 and 1924.[1] Then, Elin Wägner edited Tidevarvet from 1924 to 1927.[6] She was replaced by Carin Hermelin in the post who edited Tidevarvet from 1927 to its demise in 1936.[1][5]

Honorine Hermelin and Moa Martinson were among the contributors.[11] The latter published notes about her visit to the Soviet Union in the magazine,[11] which continued to be an influential platform to discuss social and women-related issues in Sweden until 1935.[4] Ada Nilsson also worked in the magazine.[12]

The other significant contributors included Eva Andén, Emilia Fogelklou, Klara Johansson and Frida Steenhoff.[5] Tidevarvet ceased publication in December 1936.[13][14]

Hjördis Levin published a book about the magazine and its contributors, Kvinnorna på barrikaden (meaning Women on the Barricade in English).[5]

References

1. "Tidevarvet". Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek (in Swedish). Retrieved 17 April 2020.
2. "Tidevarvet 1923". Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
3. "Tidevarvet cover page" (PDF). Tidevarvet. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
4. Lene Buchert. "Hesselgren, Kerstin (1872-1964)". Performance Magazine. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
5. "Tidevarvsgruppen (The Age Group), Fogelstad-gruppen (The Fogelstad Group) and the newspaper Tidevarvet (The Age.)". Hjördis Levin's homepage. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
6. Karl Erik Gustafsson; Per Rydén (2010). A History of the Press in Sweden (PDF). Gothenburg: Nordicom. ISBN 978-91-86523-08-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
7. Helena Forsås-Scott. "Gas Mask Madonna". Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
8. Majken Jul Sørensen (5 January 2011). "Swedish Women's Civil Defence Refusal 1935–1956". War Resisters' International. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
9. "Report from Fogelstad". Moderna Museet. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
10. Ebba Witt-Brattström. "From Man to Child". Nordic Women's Literature. Archived from the original on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
11. Dagmar Brunow (2009). "Allegory, Performativity, and Intervention: The Function of Travelogues in a Contested Space". Borders as Experience (PDF). Halmstad: School of Humanities, Halmstad University. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
12. Alexandra Stang (2015). "Possibilities, Silences" (PhD Thesis). University of Helsinki. Helsinki. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
13. Helena Forsas-Scott (1 December 2000). Swedish Women's Writing 1850–1995. A&C Black. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-84714-197-2. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
14. "Magazine" (PDF). Tidevarvet (45–46). Retrieved 30 December 2016.

External links

• Editions of Tidevarvet 1923–1936 digitized by Gothenburg University Library