Striden om folkhemmet : rumsliga motiv i valrörelseretoriken 1921
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This article discusses how the concepts of home and people were expressed in the rhetoric in the general election in Sweden 1921, when the right to vote and to run for parliament was extended to women as well. The Social Democrats Agda Östlund and Anna Johansson-Visborg stand out by describing the urban working-class home characterized by overcrowding and housing shortages. At the same time, they also have a utopian perspective, which, however, differs from the abstract idealization of the home by bourgeois rhetoric. The women of the bourgeoisie, such as Lilly Hellström, connect the home with the bourgeois family, which must be defended against the emerging socialism.The view of the home differs, not only between right and left but also between women in different political parties. This indicates that differences not only are gender-related, but also class-related, and the class perspective also characterizes the speakers' rhetorical strategies. When the right-wing Arvid Lindman describes the nation as a home, he evokes the image of a hierarchical order in which the social classes live side by side in harmony. The Social Democrat Per Albin Hansson's home metaphor is a contrast and a direct and radical critique of the hierarchical society that Lindman defends.