Collective Motherliness in Europe (1890 - 1939)

Ellen Key (18491926) was one of Europe's most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women's sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe's five major language areas English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish and explores how her ideas about social modernity and women's sexuality were received and how they were communicated in feminist literature and debate during the first decades of the 20th century. The aim of this anthology is to offer new knowledge about Key's influence on European thinking on issues such as motherhood, sexuality, and love in the early 1900s by offering both a broader and deeper understanding of the international significance of Key's work.

Autorentext

Ulla Åkerström, PhD, is Associate Professor in Italian at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. Her research interests include Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, Italian studies, history of scholarship and translation history. Elena Lindholm, PhD, is Associate Professor in Spanish at the Department of Language Studies, Umeå University. Her main research interest is Spanish feminist literature from the early 1900s and especially works by women s rights activist Carmen de Burgos. She has, for instance, led a research project on the author s depictions of the Nordic countries.

Klappentext

Ellen Key (1849 1926) was one of Europe s most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women s sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe s five major language areas English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish and explores how her ideas about social modernity and women s sexuality were received and how they were communicated in feminist literature and debate during the first decades of the 20th century. The aim of this anthology is to offer new knowledge about Key s influence on European thinking on issues such as motherhood, sexuality, and love in the early 1900s by offering both a broader and deeper understanding of the international significance of Key s work.