{{Short description|Weekly political magazine in Sweden (1923–1936)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | frequency = Weekly | circulation = | category = Political magazine | company = | publisher = | founded = 1923 | firstdate = 24 November 1923 | finaldate = November 1936 | finalnumber = | country = Sweden | based = Stockholm | language = Swedish | website = | issn = | oclc = }} thumb|220px|''Tidevarvets'' editorial office in 1935 '''''Tidevarvet''''' ({{langx|sv|The Epoch}}) was a weekly political and feminist magazine existed between November 1923 and December 1936 in Stockholm, Sweden.<ref name="borgu">{{cite web|title=Tidevarvet|work=Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek|access-date=17 April 2020 |language=sv|url=http://www2.ub.gu.se/kvinn/portaler/kvinnotidskrifter/tidevarvet/}}</ref>
==History and profile == ''Tidevarvet'' was established in 1923.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tidevarvet 1923|work=Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek|access-date=1 October 2019 |url=http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinn/digtid/08/1923/index.xml|language=sv}}</ref> The first issue appeared on 24 November 1923.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tidevarvet cover page|url=http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinndata/digtid/08/1923/tidevarvet1923_1.pdf|access-date=30 December 2016|language=sv |work=Tidevarvet}}</ref> The founders were five women, who were called the Fogelstad group: Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin, who was an educator, Ada Nilsson, who was a medical doctor, Elisabeth Tamm, a politician, and Elin Wägner, who was an author.<ref name=len>{{cite magazine|author=Lene Buchert|title=Hesselgren, Kerstin (1872-1964)|url=http://www.performancemagazine.org/thinkers-on-education/hesselgren-kerstin-1872-1964/|access-date=30 December 2016|magazine=Performance Magazine}}</ref><ref name="levi">{{cite web |title=Tidevarvsgruppen (The Age Group), Fogelstad-gruppen (The Fogelstad Group) and the newspaper Tidevarvet (The Age)|access-date=30 December 2016|url=http://user.tninet.se/~uzt234e/Tidevarvet.htm|work=Hjördis Levin's homepage}}</ref> The founders had a liberal political stance.<ref name="levi"/> It was started on the initiatives of the Liberal Women's National Association, which was also established by the group.<ref name=keg>{{cite book|author1=Karl Erik Gustafsson|author2=Per Rydén|title=A History of the Press in Sweden|year=2010 |publisher=Nordicom|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-86523-08-4|url=http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213232250/http://presshistoria.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/A-history-of-the-Press-in-Sweden.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Irene Andersson|title='Women's Unarmed Uprising Against War': A Swedish Peace Protest in 1935|journal=Journal of Peace Research|year=2003|volume=40|issue=4|page=399|s2cid=143056287 |doi=10.1177/00223433030404003}}</ref>
''Tidevarvet'' stated its mission in the first issue as follows: the magazine would be a “forum, an arena in which men and women can work side by side to forge a broad-minded vision and find ways of implementing it in legislation and community life.”<ref>{{cite news|author=Helena Forsås-Scott|title=Gas Mask Madonna|url=http://nordicwomensliterature.net/article/gas-mask-madonna|access-date=30 December 2016|work=Nordic Women's Literature}}</ref> The magazine was published on a weekly basis.<ref name=maj>{{cite news|author=Majken Jul Sørensen|title=Swedish Women's Civil Defence Refusal 1935–1956|url=https://www.wri-irg.org/node/11973|access-date=29 December 2016|work=War Resisters' International|date=5 January 2011}}</ref><ref name=mod>{{cite web|title=Report from Fogelstad|url=http://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/10-stories/report-from-fogelstad/|work=Moderna Museet|access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref> It adopted a radical political<ref name=mod/> and pacifist stance.<ref name=maj/> Elisabeth Tamm subsidised the magazine.<ref>{{cite news|author=Ebba Witt-Brattström|title=From Man to Child |url=http://nordicwomensliterature.net/article/man-child|access-date=29 December 2016|work=Nordic Women's Literature|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230085803/http://nordicwomensliterature.net/article/man-child|archive-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> ''Tidevarvet'' ceased publication in December 1936.<ref>{{cite book|author=Helena Forsas-Scott|title=Swedish Women's Writing 1850–1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IrCvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA269|year=2000|publisher=The Athlone Press|isbn=978-1-84714-197-2|page=269 |location=London; Atlantic Highlands, NJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Magazine|work=Tidevarvet|access-date=30 December 2016 |url=http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinndata/digtid/08/1936/tidevarvet1936_45_46.pdf|issue=45–46}}</ref>
==Editors, contributors and content== The launching editor of the magazine was Ellen Hagen<ref name="levi"/> whose term was between 1923 and 1924.<ref name="borgu"/> Then, Elin Wägner edited ''Tidevarvet'' from 1924 to 1927.<ref name=keg/> She was replaced by Carin Hermelin in the post who edited ''Tidevarvet'' from 1927 to its demise in 1936.<ref name="borgu"/><ref name="levi"/>
Honorine Hermelin and Moa Martinson were among the contributors.<ref name=dag>{{cite book|author=Dagmar Brunow|title=Borders as Experience |year=2009|publisher=School of Humanities, Halmstad University|location=Halmstad|isbn=978-91-978256-0-3|editor=KG Hammarlund|pages=201–215 |chapter-url=http://hh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:275313/FULLTEXT02.pdf|chapter=Allegory, Performativity, and Intervention: The Function of Travelogues in a Contested Space}}</ref> The latter published notes about her visit to the Soviet Union in the magazine,<ref name="dag"/> which continued to be an influential platform to discuss social and women-related issues in Sweden until 1935.<ref name=len/> Ada Nilsson also worked in the magazine.<ref>{{cite thesis|author=Alexandra Stang|title=Possibilities, Silences|location=University of Helsinki|year=2015 |url=https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/157585|degree=PhD|hdl=10138/157585}}</ref> The other significant contributors included Eva Andén, Emilia Fogelklou, Klara Johansson, Frida Steenhoff<ref name="levi"/> and Ellen Key.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Torborg Lundell| title=Ellen Key and Swedish feminist views on motherhood|journal=Scandinavian Studies|volume=56|issue=4|year=1984|jstor=40918447|page=354}}</ref>
Although ''Tidevarvet'' was a feminist publication, it did not publish specific issues on women arguing that all areas of society were concerned with women.<ref name=vhed/> In addition to political content, the magazine frequently featured articles about physical training and sports.<ref name=vhed>{{cite journal|author=Helena Tolvhed|title=A Sound Citizen in a Sound Body: Sport and the Issue of Women's Emancipation in 1920s Sweden |journal=Journal of Women's History|date=Summer 2015|volume=27|issue=2|pages=41,45|doi=10.1353/jowh.2015.0014|s2cid=142121324 }}</ref> These were mostly written by a medical doctor and political activist Andrea Andreen,<ref name="vhed" /> with numerous contributions by Ragnvi Torslow-Lundgren.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Torslow-Lundgren |first=Ragnvi |date=1930 |title=Daneliusfonden till kvinnlig idrottsplats |url=https://libris.kb.se/bib/9531018 |journal=Tidevarvet |pages=1930(8):21, s. 2}}</ref> The magazine invited its readers to join the activities of the ''Svenska kvinnors centralförbund för fysisk kultur (''Swedish Women's Federation for Physical Culture).<ref name=vhed/>
== Legacy == Hjördis Levin published a book about the magazine and its contributors, ''Kvinnorna på barrikaden'' ({{langx|sv|Women on the Barricade}}).<ref name="levi"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.ub.gu.se/kvinn/digtid/08/ Editions of ''Tidevarvet'' 1923–1936] digitized by Gothenburg University Library
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