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Hannah Yoken is a doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is a specialist in twentieth-century cultural, social and political history with an interest in questions surrounding gender, social movements and oral history.
The Nordic countries are globally renowned as states that embrace gender equality. However, the region also has a rich history of feminist activism at the grassroots level. This history includes activism undertaken during ‘second wave’ feminism, from the late 1960s to the 1990s. During this period of time the women’s movements benefitted from interactions with non-Nordic political and cultural forces, and were influenced by resources and literature from outside the Nordic region.