Ingrid Ryberg – författare

Swedish Film Feminism is the first in-depth study of the feminist film movement in Sweden in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing from a rich and largely overlooked audiovisual and textual archive, the book maps out the political and aesthetic features of this national film history, unpacking how the imaginary of Sweden’s gender equality both restricted and enabled women’s creative agency and artistic output during the Swedish welfare era.In addition to delineating the diverse initiatives through which film feminism materialized in Sweden, the book offers detailed case studies of production contexts that demonstrate the complexities of the era’s progressive climate. Intervening in current critical interrogations of Swedish exceptionalism, Ingrid Ryberg examines films such as the satirical short Mai Zetterling’s Stockholm (Mai Zetterling, 1978), the documentary "Woman in the Middle of the World" (Mona Sjöström and Ulf Hultberg, 1976), and the lesbian short Eva and Maria (Mary Eisikovits, Marie Falksten, and Annalena Öhrström, 1983). Beyond filling a historical gap by restoring the neglected Swedish case, Swedish Film Feminism challenges dominant canons, backstories, and frameworks in feminist film historiography, introducing analytical tools and reading strategies to reconsider women’s film histories that fall outside received parameters.The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

This book investigates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and antiracist debates on media, taking a particular interest in the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. Contributors such as Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed examine how vulnerability has become a battleground, how affect and vulnerability have turned into a politicised currency both for addressing and obscuring asymmetries of power, and how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups. Taking on such heated topics as trigger warnings and diversity policies, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.