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Elin Wagner's Alarm Clock - Ecofeminist Theory in the Interwar Era (Hardcover)
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Elin Wagner's Alarm Clock - Ecofeminist Theory in the Interwar Era (Hardcover)
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This book analyses the ideas of the Swedish journalist, feminist,
and literary author Elin Wagner (1882-1949), as conveyed in her
book Vackarklocka (1941), in a European feminist context. This
context is presented in terms of three elements. Firstly, the
German sociologist/educationalist Mathilde Vaerting and her
sociology of power played an important role in Wagner's development
of a theory of matriarchy. Secondly, the influence of the Austrian
feminist Rosa Mayreder and her theory of masculine civilization and
feminine culture are analyzed in relation to Wagner's development
of what might be called an early ecological feminism. Thirdly, the
mainly unknown Women's Organization for World Order (WOWO) is
presented. 0s and 1930s, which wanted to strengthen women's
position and confidence as political citizens by providing them
with a historical past where women ruled (matriarchy). Thereby they
not only reinvented a past, but also revitalized the emergence or
eternity of patriarchy. These women discussed the possibility of
women offering an alternative to the prevailing order. A special
analysis is made of Mayreder's and Wagner's way of discussing what
woman is and in what ways she can challenge the system. Both argued
that women ought to have the same rights and duties as men, but
that this should not require them to adapt to the distorted male
system. This study argues that this position, easily characterized
as "essentialist" in modern feminist terms, is in fact functional
and strongly emancipatory in its time and context. In this
reevaluation of Vackarklocka Katarina Leppanen has established this
important Swedish novel as a text central to the development of the
feminist movement. Elin Wagner's Alarm Clock is a book suitable for
students of Swedish Literature and European Feminism.
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