Koti ja Yhteiskunta
Editor-in-chief | Alexandra Gripenberg |
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Categories | Women's magazine |
Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Finnish Women’s Association |
Founder | Alexandra Gripenberg |
Year founded | 1889 |
First issue | 14 April 1889 |
Final issue | 31 December 1911 |
Country | Finland |
Based in | Helsinki |
Language | Finnish |
Koti ja Yhteiskunta (Home and Society in English) was a Finnish language monthly women's magazine which was published in Helsinki in the period 1889–1911.[1] It was the official media outlet of the Finnish Women’s Association.[2]
History and profile[]
Koti ja Yhteiskunta was first published on 14 April 1889.[3] The founder was Alexandra Gripenberg who also edited the magazine which covered both political writings and domestic articles.[3] She was the sole editor-in-chief of the magazine until 1911 and published various articles.[4] Koti ja Yhteiskunta was published by the Finnish Women’s Association on a monthly basis.[3] The magazine opposed to women's having sex and children before marriage and denounced the working-class and rural women who were frequently practising these.[5] It also regarded female servants as a threat for family life and demanded that female servants should be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.[5] After producing a total 273 issues it ceased publication on 31 December 1911.[3]
References[]
- ^ Maija Anneli Töyry (2005). Varhaiset naistenlehdet ja naisten elämän ristiriidat: Neuvotteluja lukijasopimuksesta (MA thesis) (in Finnish). University of Helsinki.
- ^ Pasi Saarimäki (2018). "Bourgeois Women and The Question of Divorce in Finland in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries". Scandinavian Journal of History. 43 (1): 66. doi:10.1080/03468755.2017.1353192.
- ^ a b c d Maija Töyry (2016). "Gender Contract and Localization in Early Women's Magazines in Finland Since 1782". Media History. 22 (1): 17–18. doi:10.1080/13688804.2015.1078229.
- ^ Tiina Kinnunen (2016). "The National and International in Making a Feminist: the case of Alexandra Gripenberg". Women's History Review. 25 (4). doi:10.1080/09612025.2015.1114327.
- ^ a b Anna Elomäki (2009). "Rethinking Political Action and Enforcing Sexual Morality: Finnish Women's Struggle for Suffrage as Conceptual Politics". Redescriptions. Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory. 13 (1): 161. doi:10.7227/R.13.1.8.
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