Swedish Film Feminism

Between Grassroots Movements and Welfare Policies

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by Ingrid Ryberg

Type: Essays
Subject: Countries > Sweden
Keywords: Sweden, feminism
Publishing date: 2025 (October 30, 2025) (Upcoming)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English

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Hardcover • 232 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-350-18631-6

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Book Presentation:
Drawing on rich archival materials, this open access book offers the first in-depth historical account of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s. Ingrid Ryberg makes an important contribution to feminist film studies by providing detailed case studies of crucial contexts of production, distribution and reception; key films and directors including Mai Zetterling's The Girls; and elaborate reassessments of central debates in feminist film theory.

By unearthing this national film history, Swedish Film Feminism brings new insights into the politics and aesthetics of the feminist film movement as well as revealing how they were shaped by funding opportunities and interactions with state agencies. Ryberg's central argument is that women's film culture in Sweden nurtured a state feminist image of accomplished gender equality, at the same time that opportunities for women filmmakers in practice remained scarce. She makes a topical and substantial contribution to contemporary widespread debates about women's filmmaking, the politics of representation, and feminist media histories both in and outside academia.
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Gothenburg.

About the Author:
Ingrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a filmmaker. She is co-editor of The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018). In addition, she is the director of the documentary En armé av älskande (An Army of Lovers, 2018), about queer filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s.

Press Reviews:
"Swedish Film Feminism is a bold excavation into an "abundant but scattered" archive of 1970s culture ingeniously located and then lovingly analyzed by the intrepid media scholar, Ingrid Ryberg. A salute to feminism within a national film canon, Ryberg offers a critical contribution that nuances feminist film history as well as the theories and methods it encapsulates." ―Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, USA

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