Abstract
On 15 June 2013, Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway opened a marked mountain trail in the Lofoten Archipelago, near the Arctic Circle. Its inauguration was part of the Norwegian National Jubilee of Women’s Right to Vote (1913–2013). This chapter examines the connection between a remote hiking trail in northern Norway and the women’s suffrage movement 100 years earlier. The analysis reveals a complexity of views on women’s societal and political rights, as well as women’s contributions to, and benefits from, outdoor adventure and aesthetic appreciation of nature.
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The information was taken from the official web page running throughout the Jubilee (http://stemmerettsjubileet.no/de-fire-store), however, which was later closed down.
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Generated by university librarian executive emerita Anne-Mette Vibe, university librarian executive Hege Underthun, and Professor Kirsti Pedersen Gurholt, with graphic design by Tove Riise and financial support from the Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, displayed from 24 October 2013 to 24 January 2014. In particular, I am grateful to Anne-Mette Vibe, who took the initiative and provided me with original sources of female pioneering mountaineers.
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Same as note ii: including Camilla Collett (1813–1895), Gina Krog (1847–1916), Fernanda Nissen (1862–1920), and Fredrikke Marie Quam (1843–1938). No sources connect Quam to friluftsliv or sport. However, in her later career, she led the National Association for the Promotion of Women’s Health, which is now funding research on women, physical activity, and health.
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The second category includes Anna Rogstad (1854–1938), Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950), Thekla Resvoll (1871–1948), Therese Bertheau (1861–1936), Eva Sars Nansen (1858–1907), and Antoinette Kamstrup (1859–1948).
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Promoted by the initials H.S. (1887). Momenter til eftertanke betræffende reformturistdragten for damer og andet kvindedrakt vedkommende [Moments to afterthought about the reform tourist dress for women and other female dresses], New Terrain [Nylænde], 6, 89–92.
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Agerholt refers to the historian Halvdan Koht, Vision and myths (1934) and to Dagbladet, 15 January 1894. Cecilie Thoresen was the first woman to attend university in Norway. In 1892, the Huseby Race was moved to Holmenkollen, still Norway’s most famous ski arena.
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Promoted in the weekly women’s magazine Hjemmet [The Home], published the week before Easter, 2016, when this chapter was completed!
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Gurholt, K.P. (2018). Tourist and Sport Reform Dress, Friluftsliv, and Women’s Right to Vote in Norway, 1880–1913. In: Gray, T., Mitten, D. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Outdoor Learning. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53550-0_8
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