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Elaboration of the “New Woman” Figure by Women Artists in Interwar Finland

Authors: Palin Tutta

Editors: Greaves Kerry

Publishing place: New York, Abingdon

Publication year: 2021

Book title : Modern Women Artists in the Nordic Countries, 1900–1960

Series title: Routledge Research in Gender and Art

First page : 182

Last page: 192

Number of pages: 11

ISBN: 978-0-367-42338-4

eISBN: 978-0-367-82367-2

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367823672-21

Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780367823672-21/elaboration-new-woman-figure-women-artists-interwar-finland-1-tutta-palin

Abstract

In Finland, where women had been granted the right to vote in 1906, the popularized figure of the “New Woman” provided a flexible and marketable persona for the female artist. This chapter explores the approaches to “New Womanhood” as a cultural trope by looking at three artists: Ester Helenius, Ingrid Ruin, and Ingrid Söderström, who all attracted acute media attention during the second half of the 1920s.