Bourgeois Women and the Question of Divorce in Finland in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Saarimäki, P. (2018). Bourgeois Women and the Question of Divorce in Finland in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries. Scandinavian Journal of History, 43(1), 64-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2017.1353192
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This article explores perceptions and actions of Finnish upper-middle-class women with regard
to divorce in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Divorce was discussed in the
periodicals of bourgeois women’s associations and later in Finnish Parliament, in which
several leading figures of the bourgeois women’s associations were elected as members from
1907 onwards. Compared to other issues related to marriage and its legislation, divorce was
not an especially important question for bourgeois women, but a tool to promote other issues.
Women writers demanded drunkenness and violence as new grounds for divorce, and proposed
that loveless marriages should be made possible to dissolve. Moreover, writers were concerned
about mothers’ custodian rights over their children, and demanded that mothers should be
given the primary right to guardianship after divorce. Even though upper-middle-class
women presented straight opinions about divorce in their periodicals, women parliamentarians
brought out their claims only indirectly in their bills. Nevertheless, most of their
objectives were realized when the new Marriage Act was approved in 1929.
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