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tiie woman question.
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of actual importance at an early period. A peculiarity of the women’s
movement in Scandinavia is that, while it otherwise sprang from the
middle-class liberalism of the 19th century and from Rousseau’s theories,
it is here so closely associated with literary tendencies (Fredrika Bremer,.
Camilla Collet, and later, Strindberg, Björnson, Ibsen and Brandes).
Fredrika Bremer.
Even if in bygone times both law and custom to a certain degree
secured the position of woman, nevertheless the decisive reforms in this
respect belong to our own age. These were carried through at first by
men of liberal ideas, e. g. J. G. Richert, and L. J. Hierta, without any
aid from any organized woman’s movement. Swedish women have, since
1845, possessed the same rights of inheritance as men, and since 1863,
an unmarried woman has legal status. At first she attained her majority
at the age of 25; but, since 1884, at 21, or the same age as is the case
with men. A widow or a divorced woman is considered to have attained
her majority whatever her age may be.
The position of a married woman continues to be less favourable. She is
still subjected to the guardianship of her husband and is thus, actually, a minor.
The husband has, in most cases, the right to administer her property. However,
according to the law of 1874, this right is so far restricted that the wife
can, by means of a "provision" drawn up prior to her marriage, obtain the right
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