Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundet

Fredrika-Bremer-Förbundet or FBF (The Fredrika Bremer Association) is a Swedish women's rights organisation. It is the oldest women's movement organisation in Sweden. It is a member of the International Alliance of Women, that has general consultative status with the United Nations.

FBF works with forming public opinion in favor of gender equality by information and activities, and by handing out money from various funds and scholarships. It collaborates with other organisations with similar goals both nationally and internationally. The FBF had a representative in the governmental council of equality.

The organisation was founded in 1884 by the feminist Sophie Adlersparre and named after Fredrika Bremer. The purpose of the organisation was to support women's rights, to inform women of their rights and to encourage them to use them. At the time of its foundation, for example, the focus was to inform women of their rights to serve in the boards of public institutions, and of the rights of women of a certain income to vote in municipal elections and to use those rights.[1] By 1890, the office of the organisation in Stockholm functioned as an employment agency for women of the middle classes, and offered juridical, economical and medical information and advice to women.[2] It was also noted at that time, that many women came their to be informed of the movement for women suffrage.[3]

It was the publisher of the women's magazine Dagny, who replaced the former women's magazine of Adlersparre, Tidskrift för hemmet, in 1886. This publication was renamed Hertha in 1914, and was the eldest women's magazine in the world when it was discontinued in the late 1990s.

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  1. ↑ http://runeberg.org/nyasthlm/0642.html
  2. ↑ http://runeberg.org/nyasthlm/0642.html
  3. ↑ http://runeberg.org/nyasthlm/0642.html