How can one judge the policies of Alva Myrdal in the Thirties? Alva Myrdal, one of Sweden's best-known feminists, suggested sterilisation in her proposed family policy during that decade. In the internationally reported intensive Swedish debate in the autumn of 1997 on the Swedish forced sterilisation 1935-1975, Alva Myrdal's ideas played a major role. What picture of Alva Myrdal evolves out of that debate, and how does it stand in relationship to her own writings and the general discursive context of the Thirties? Chronocentrism is discussed. © 2001 Human Sciences Press, Inc.
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Ekerwald, H. (2001). The modernist manifesto of Alva and Gunnar Myrdal: Modernization of Sweden in the thirties and the question of sterilization. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 14(3), 539–561. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007877111299
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