{"id":41,"date":"2009-01-07T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:46:49","slug":"worlds-of-women","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arbark.se\/sv\/publikationer\/worlds-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlds of women – internationellt material i ARAB:s samlingar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worlds of Women was a project that aims to inspire researchers, both academics and those actively interested in researching working women’s history, to look beyond national borders. This is an overview of available sources at the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) in form of essays and inventories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a project financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Introduction<\/h3>\n

Worlds of Women in ARAB’s Collections \u2014 A Short Introduction<\/a>
\nby Silke Neunsinger<\/h4>\n

A global approach to feminist labour history adds new contents and insights. Our intention with this overview of available sources at the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) is to inspire researchers, both academics and those actively interested in researching their own history, to look beyond national borders.<\/p>\n

Essays<\/h3>\n

Friendship beyond the Atlantic – Labor feminist international contacts after the second world war<\/a>
\nby Dorothy Sue Cobble<\/h4>\n

Building on earlier research, I am now exploring the international dimensions of the story of U.S. labor feminism, recreating the transnational networks and international organizations in which labor feminists participated. Part of this project involves delineating the transatlantic connections between U.S. labor feminists and their counterparts abroad and the intellectual influence European and Nordic social justice feminism had on U.S. social policy in the post-World War II era. (ARAB-Working Paper 7.)<\/em><\/p>\n

From Women’s Club to Group 8 – The Separate Organization of Women within the Swedish communist Movement<\/a>
\nby Lars Gogman<\/h4>\n

Already in 1918 the first independent communist women\u2019s organization was founded. The history of the organization of Swedish communist women shows how much room the internationalization allowed for a local formulation of the rules and structures which came from the international level. The history also shows how ideas were transformed from an international to a local context. (ARAB-Working Paper 5.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Letters from Clara Zetkin<\/a>
\nby Martin Grass<\/h4>\n

Clara Zetkin has sent letters sent both to the Social Democratic women’s organization and to leading Social Democrats in Sweden. There are only a handful of letters, but those to the representatives of the women’s organization tell a lot about the character of and conditions for women’s international work. Networking with men from the movement was often essential for women in order to develop their own organizations and groups and Zetkin’s letters to male leaders of the labour movement illustrate this. (ARAB-Working Paper 1.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Brita \u00c5kerman’s International Contacts<\/a>
\nby Arne H\u00f6gstr\u00f6m<\/h4>\n

Brita \u00c5kerman was active in different women’s organizations and was among the directors of Active Housekeeping, an information bureau within the State Information Board, and later even of the Swedish Consumers Agency. Her political work is yet another example of what was seen as typically Swedish, which, at the same time, was influenced by the developments outside Sweden. (ARAB-Working Paper 2.)<\/em><\/p>\n

German-Speaking Refugee Women in ARAB’s Holdings<\/a>
\nby Ulf J\u00f6nson<\/h4>\n

A modest amount of research has been done on women refugees. Is this due to a lack of women in the available archive material? Taking the collections of the Labour Movement Archives and Library (ARAB) in general, and in particular the Labour Movement Refugee Relief archive as the starting point, the aim here is to examine and catalogue what means are available for improving the state of research on women in exile. (ARAB-Working Paper 6.)<\/em><\/p>\n

International Women\u2019s Day a Prism for Women\u2019s Political Work<\/a>
\nby Silke Neunsinger<\/h4>\n

International Women’s Day is one of the socialist inventions that have spread and become a successful feminist celebration all over the world. The significance of International Women’s Day has certainly changed since its inception when it was intended to function as an international day for agitating for women’s suffrage to when it became an official United Nations Day in the 1970s to the present day when it is used by major companies to celebrate their outstanding female employee. (ARAB-Working Paper 3.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Tales of Modernity, Peace, and Solidarity – Women’s Travelogues<\/a>
\nby L\u00e2le Svensson<\/h4>\n

Political tourism in a very broad sense has been important for the Swedish labour movement from the very beginning. Political tourism among women in the Swedish labour movement changed from journeys to the modern Soviet Union during the 1920s, to the war-stricken countries to help their sisters in need, and twenty years later to the Global South in order to support women’s projects in Africa and Asia. (ARAB-Working Paper 4.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Inventories<\/h3>\n

Women’s archives at the Labour Movement Archives and Library<\/a>
\nby Margareta St\u00e5hl<\/h4>\n

Catalogue of women’s archives with an international profile at the Labour Movement Archives and Library, including a short presentation of the archives’ contents.<\/p>\n

Covers some 50 archives and collections \u2014 people, associations, clubs, committees, federations etc. \u2014 ranging in time from 1902 to 2003.<\/p>\n

Find Printed Sources on Women’s History<\/a>
\nby Hans Larsson<\/h4>\n

Through our library catalogue Kata<\/a> \u2014 named after the Swedish female socialist Kata Dalstr\u00f6m \u2014 you can retrieve a lot of printed material concerning women.<\/p>\n

An overview of useful subject headings and direct links to the catalogue.<\/p>\n

Lists of international articles and reports in the Morgonbris journal
\nby Eva-Karin Annemark and Mats Myrstener<\/h4>\n
\"Selling

Selling Morgonbris. Photo: Lundh. Source: Archive of Morgonbris, 1810:58282, ARAB.<\/p><\/div>\n

We have chosen to highlight particular recurring themes and topics, but also key people and countries mentioned in the journal during two time periods, referring to articles in Swedish only.<\/p>\n