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Newsletter 31 News from National Committees

SWEDEN

The great event of the year was the World History Conference in Oslo with a strong presence of Swedish women historians. Gender history as a whole played a more important role this time than earlier world conferences organised by CISH/ICHS. Swedish scholars presenting papers were Gunlog Fur, Jens Rydstrom, Marta Ronne, Inger Hammar etc. Eva Osterberg was organising a panel about History of Private Life, attended by such a huge audiance that people had to stand in the doorway and outside the room.

Another meeting of great interest was the annual meeting of the Swedish National Committe of Gender History, SKOGH, at Umea University in October. (The board has now moved from Stockholm to Umea) The theme was Gender and Class, emphasising the problems of combining these two categories in the historical analyses. Introductions were held by Carola Nordback, Birgitta Jordansson, Ann-Katrin Hatje and Christina Bergqvist.

NEW DISSERTATIONS:

Kerstin Norlander, Men, Women and the Company. Gender, class and economic resources at Liljeholmen's Stearin and Candle Factory, 1872-1939. Gothenburgs University, 2000

Yvonne Svanstrom, Policing Public Women. The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm 1812-1880. Atlas Akademi, 2000 (Stockholm University) (in English)

Ylva Waldemarsson, Women and Class - a Paradoxial Creation Story. The Swedish Confederation of Trade Unions Women Councils and the power to designate, 1898-1967. Stockholm University, 2000

Andrea Amft, Sapmi in Time of Change. A Study of Swedish Sami Living Conditions during the Twentieth Century from a Gender and Ethnic Perspective. Umea university, 2000

Gunnela Bjork, To negotiate her citizenship. Women as collective actors in Orebro 1900-1950. Arkiv forlag, 1999.(Stockholm University)

Tord Ronnholm, Women of Knowledge. The Female Students at the Turn of the Century and their Encounter with the Male University Culture. Umea University, 1999

-compiled by Christina Florin