Coming-of-age novels by women after World War I often have a significant lesbian theme. The role model is frequently a single, independent career...
Karin Boye’s most inspired poems are born at the juncture of “the world of appearances – a world that depicts”, and “the other world, the heavy,...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
New Literary Fronts.
On the New Language-Conscious Literature of the 60s and 70s
Social criticism and new consciousness in Norwegian women’s literature of the 1970s.
Based on the new research in women’s studies being conducted at Danish universities in the 1970s, a league of female reviewers arose who wrote...
The women authors of the late nineteenth century wrote in league with and as challenge to the women’s movement. The most self-assured of the women...
