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The 1975 Icelandic ‘Women’s day off’ in Nordic print media

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dc.contributor Háskóli Íslands
dc.contributor University of Iceland
dc.contributor.author Kurvinen, Heidi
dc.contributor.author Pálmadóttir, Valgerður
dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-31T11:09:11Z
dc.date.available 2025-01-31T11:09:11Z
dc.date.issued 2024-07-24
dc.identifier.citation Kurvinen, H., & Pálmadóttir, V. (2024). The 1975 Icelandic ‘Women’s day off’ in Nordic print media. Scandinavian Journal of History, 49(5), 650–671. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024.2374276
dc.identifier.issn 0346-8755
dc.identifier.issn 1502-7716
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/5295
dc.description.abstract In October 1975, the Icelandic women’s movement organized a ‘Women’s Day Off’ (WDO), a one-day strike designed to reveal the societal importance of women’s work. In this article, we explore media coverage of the WDO in the Nordic countries. Through an analytical lens that focuses on media framing and journalistic practices, we analyse differences in the coverage’s scope and content. We also contextualize the coverage against the background of sociopolitical factors that may have affected the cultural filtering of the news, as well as journalistic practices and resources in each country. In doing so, we demonstrate that the coverage relied on each newsroom’s estimation of the event’s newsworthiness for local readers. That news value was influenced by the country in question’s cultural proximity to Iceland, the state of local feminist organizing and public discussions regarding gender equality, and other news topics in circulation at the time. Our analysis is based on a reading of media texts related to the WDO that we gathered using digital interfaces of the national libraries of Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, complemented by a manual search in cases where such digitization was lacking.
dc.format.extent 650-671
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Informa
dc.relation.ispartofseries Scandinavian Journal of History;49(5)
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Aðgerðastefna
dc.subject Fjölmiðlar
dc.subject Kvennaverkföll
dc.subject Activism
dc.subject Media
dc.subject Women´s strike
dc.title The 1975 Icelandic ‘Women’s day off’ in Nordic print media
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.description.version Published version
dc.identifier.journal Scandinavian Journal of History
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024.2374276
dc.relation.url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03468755.2024.2374276
dc.contributor.department Sagnfræði- og heimspekideild (HÍ)
dc.contributor.department Faculty of History and Philosophy (UI)
dc.contributor.school Hugvísindasvið (HÍ)
dc.contributor.school School of Humanities (UI)


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