Parliamentary discourses: gender and agriculture in the Swedish debate in the 1940s and 1960s

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the Swedish agriculture policy from the 1940s to 1960s. Which gender visions were explicitly and implicitly expressed in Swedish agricultural policy discourse during the formative period of the welfare state? In what way were farming women, men and families represented in debates in the Swedish Riksdag (the Parliament) in the parliamentary processes, in bills, proposals and protocols? The point of departure is the concept of family farm, its introduction and the different understandings and discussions it was met with.

Citation

Flygare, I.A. (2007), "Parliamentary discourses: gender and agriculture in the Swedish debate in the 1940s and 1960s", Asztalos Morell, I. and Bock, B.B. (Ed.) Gender Regimes, Citizen Participation and Rural Restructuring (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-1922(07)13007-9