Selma LagerlÃ¶f, Fredrika Bremer and Women as Nation Builders

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Selma LagerlÃ¶f, Fredrika Bremer and Women as Nation Builders

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Pages:: 227â245

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401211123_014

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Departing from Selma LagerlÃ¶fâs short story âMamsell Fredrikaâ, this chapter presents LagerlÃ¶fâs discussion of womenâs tasks in the building of an equal and sustainable nation. She compares menâs creation of the State with womenâs creation of the home, and makes this an absolute prerequisite for the good home in a societal and political sense. This discourse has often been compared to Ellen Keyâs thoughts on motherhood as a vocation, but closer examination points to a different evaluation of womenâs work, which is not, in Selma LagerlÃ¶fâs view, strictly connected to motherhood in its biological sense, but rather detached from the conventional and instead closely related to writing as another kind of womenâs work.

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Women Telling Nations

Series:Â Women Writers in History, Volume: 1

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401211123

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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