Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb

Stockholms allmänna kvinnoklubb (Stockholm Public Women's Club) was founded in Stockholm 11 June 1892, and became a part of the Swedish Social Democratic Party the same year. It is referred to as the foundation of the women's organisation within the social democratic worker's movement in Sweden.
It was the first social democratic women's club to be officially a part of the party, and the first of many local clubs of the same kind.

History 
In 1888, the first social democratic women's club, Kvinnliga arbetarklubben, was founded by Elma Danielsson in Malmö, followed by other local clubs, but non of them were officially a part of the party, and never became more than temporary. Though women were made members of the Swedish Social Democratic Party its foundation in 1889, women's issues were not regarded a specific issue separated from the class issue, and no women's association were given much encouragement.

On 11 June 1892, a meeting was held in Stockholm by a group of female social democrats to address this. The opening speech was held by Emilie Rathou, who had been the first female 1 May-speaker the previous year. Rathou was the co-founder of  with a group of women consisting of Alina Jägerstedt (who had made sure women was included as party members in 1889), Lotten Jäderlund, Elsa Löfgren, Elin Engström, Gertrud Månsson and Anna Söderberg among others. They were soon joined by known profiles such as Kata Dalström, Anna Sterky, Anna Lindhagen and Amanda Horney.

The Club organized the social democratic women within the Swedish working class movement by establishing local women's clubs and enlisting working women in the trade unions. In 1897, they founded the Committee for Women's Agitation, which in 1902 founded the Women's Trade Union, which in turn started to publish Morgonbris in 1904. In 1907, the first social democratic women's congress was assembled, which started to arrange congresses for the women's clubs every third year.

Between 1902 and 1921, it was also involved in the National Association for Women's Suffrage, were its foremost representatives were Anna Lindhagen and Ruth Gustafson.  It also supported the pacifist association during World War I.

In 1920, all local social democratic women's clubs in Sweden including this one, was united to the Social Democratic Women in Sweden.

References

Additional sources 
 1890-talet, KvinnSam, Gbg:s Universitet
 Kvinnorna i den socialdemokratiska rörelsen, tidskriften Tiden 1939
 Levin, Hjördis, 'Proletärkvinnor, Ohoj!: Stockholms Allmänna kvinnoklubb 1892–1930', Arbetarhistoria., 1987-1988:44-45 (Årg. 11-12), s. 4-32, 1988
 Lindgren, Anne-Marie & Lindgren Åsbrink, Marika, Systrar, kamrater!: arbetarrörelsens kvinnliga pionjärer, Idé och tendens, Stockholm, 2007

Category:Swedish Social Democratic Party
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Category:Politics of Sweden
Category:1892 establishments in Sweden
Category:Organizations established in 1892