In Sweden homosexual acts prohibited until 1944. But in the early 1900s until 1935 did both writers and artists portray lesbian love in a new and more transparent way, says Eva Borgström, associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg.
in his new book “stories of the forbidden – Request for women in Swedish literature 1900-1935″, she shows how the writers went to weigh. Around 1930 wrote including Karin Boye, Margareta Suber and Gertrude Almqvist openly about women’s love. But with the war prelude came a backlash, and a retreat for the traditional
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