Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad

From left to right: Elisabeth Tamm, Ada Nilsson, Kerstin Hesselgren, Honorine Hermelin and Elin Wägner, members of the Fogelstadgruppen, who founded and managed the Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad.

Kvinnliga medborgarskolan vid Fogelstad (Fogelstad Citizen School for Women) was a Swedish education center for women, active from 1922 until 1954. The purpose of the center was to educate women in their new rights and responsibilities as citizens after women suffrage had been achieved in 1921. The center was founded by the Fogelstadgruppen (Fogelstad Group), a women's group which also managed the Frisinnade kvinnors riksförbund (Union of Liberal Women) and the magazine Tidevarvet, and it was situated at the Folgestad manor, which was owned by one of the members: Elisabeth Tamm, herself one of the first women in the Swedish parliament.

References

• Lena Eskilsson, Drömmen om kamratsamhället. Kvinnliga medborgarskolan på Fogelsta 1925-35, Carlssons 1991, ISBN 91-7798-441-2
• Ulrika Knutson, Kvinnor på gränsen till genombrott: grupporträtt av Tidevarvets kvinnor, Bonnier 2004, ISBN 91-0-058000-7
• Hjördis Levin, Kvinnorna på barrikaden. Sexualpolitik och sociala frågor 1923-36, Carlssons 1997, ISBN 91-7203-189-1