This project application focuses on women in life reform movements around 1900 and how they impacted the development of the modernity project in the Baltic Sea Region. In the decades around 1900, women increasingly began to enter the public sphere in the West. The Baltic Sea region was no exception. A central part of this public sphere was the life reform movements. There women could work for social and individual change in a way that was not previously possible. A specific expression of the public sphere was the press, which became a meeting place and arena for life reform movements and where different ideas were formed and pushed against each other. Based on the practices and ideas of Elna Tenow, a Swedish author, feminist and animal lover, and Johanne Ottosen, a Danish-Norwegian-American vegetarian, Seventh-day Adventist and temperance activist, the project has an epistemological and gender history perspective. It focuses partly on women’s roles and functions within life reform movements and partly on the new role of women that the authors expressed themselves, but that they also wrote about. The theoretical perspectives are inspired by the field of knowledge history as well as media history. The project\u00b4s methods are discourse analysis and a perspective inspired by the biographical turn. Source material is for example various texts written by Tenow and Ottosen, some published on its own, some found in different member journals and newspapers, as well as archive material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-6067","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n