Frejdiga fruntimmer

Damsällskapet Concordia under luppen

Abstract

This article tells us about the ladies association Concordia, founded in Uppsala in 1919. Concordia is a kind of cultural club , were a so called salon culture (“salongskultur”) is performed. The Concordian tradition is discussed as well as aspects of class, gender and generation. Concordia can be inepreted as a kind of microcosm that reveals class and gender systems in Sweden over the last hundred years.