Feminism, modernism, and the morality debate Anne Charlotte Leffler's Tre Komedier. From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2004 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

ACT ONE of Anne Charlotte Leffler's Den karleken [Love is Strange] takes place in a boarding house in Stockholm. Three women--a teacher, an office worker, and a student--are preparing to hold a meeting that will discuss issues relating to the status of women and the ongoing debate concerning sexuality inside and outside of marriage. The student, who is the youngest of the three, announces a tentative title for her own talk: "Om mannens polygamiska och kvinnans monogamiska instinkter" (14) [On Men's Polygamous and Women's Monogamous Instincts]. A young man, who later proposes to ...

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