160 years of Swedish feminist journal history
In Sweden, we have KvinnSam - National Resource Library for Gender Studies and university-wide research infrastructure. KvinnSam’s main tasks are surveying and cataloguing literature on gender issues, and compiling and cataloguing manuscript material on women’s history, as well as providing reference services. Meaning, it hold so much amazing data.
Here, I have, with the help from KvinnSam, made a very simple visualisation of 160 years of Swedish literature history. 1880s til 1960 seems to be very productive time, with lots of different journals and many issues published/year. It is also humbling to see how Hertha, 150 years later, still has issues published today.
Looking closer into the 1960 and onwards there are fewer journals and issues, but in an era of digitalisation it is quite remarkable how feminist journals continues and are created.
I will look closer into the different subjects raised within the journals and how they are related to historical events.
You can find KvinnSam here
