Ingrid Ryberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a filmmaker. She is co-editor of The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018). In addition, she is the director of the documentary An Army of Lovers (2018), about queer filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s.

Swedish Film Feminism is a bold excavation into an “abundant but scattered” archive of 1970s culture ingeniously located and then lovingly analyzed by the intrepid media scholar, Ingrid Ryberg. A salute to feminism within a national film canon, Ryberg offers a critical contribution that nuances feminist film history as well as the theories and methods it encapsulates.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Decentering feminist film historiography 1. The eventfulness of “women’s film” 2. From images-of-women to “female” films 3. The (juxta)politics of ordinary 4. An elevated feminist ahead of her time? 5. Film “pioneers” in the “Third World”? 6. Lesbianism as abortion prevention? Afterword: Swedish film feminism’s political grammar Notes References Index

Ingrid Ryberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a filmmaker. She is co-editor of The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018). In addition, she is the director of the documentary An Army of Lovers (2018), about queer filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s.

Swedish Film Feminism is a bold excavation into an “abundant but scattered” archive of 1970s culture ingeniously located and then lovingly analyzed by the intrepid media scholar, Ingrid Ryberg. A salute to feminism within a national film canon, Ryberg offers a critical contribution that nuances feminist film history as well as the theories and methods it encapsulates.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Decentering feminist film historiography 1. The eventfulness of “women’s film” 2. From images-of-women to “female” films 3. The (juxta)politics of ordinary 4. An elevated feminist ahead of her time? 5. Film “pioneers” in the “Third World”? 6. Lesbianism as abortion prevention? Afterword: Swedish film feminism’s political grammar Notes References Index

Ingrid Ryberg is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a filmmaker. She is co-editor of The Power of Vulnerability: Mobilising Affect in Feminist, Queer and Anti-racist Media Cultures (2018). In addition, she is the director of the documentary An Army of Lovers (2018), about queer filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s.

Swedish Film Feminism is a bold excavation into an “abundant but scattered” archive of 1970s culture ingeniously located and then lovingly analyzed by the intrepid media scholar, Ingrid Ryberg. A salute to feminism within a national film canon, Ryberg offers a critical contribution that nuances feminist film history as well as the theories and methods it encapsulates.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Decentering feminist film historiography 1. The eventfulness of “women’s film” 2. From images-of-women to “female” films 3. The (juxta)politics of ordinary 4. An elevated feminist ahead of her time? 5. Film “pioneers” in the “Third World”? 6. Lesbianism as abortion prevention? Afterword: Swedish film feminism’s political grammar Notes References Index