ABSTRACT
In the official story of women’s political rights in Sweden, 1921 is the year when democracy was fully introduced, because women received suffrage. This chapter analyses women’s voting experiences in Swedish towns over a long period before that event, from the Age of Liberty in eighteenth-century Sweden up to 1921. The chapter discusses how gendered meanings of voting interacted with the changing economic and legal structures of the town. Moreover, the chapter contributes to a discussion of how national and local politics interacted in the development of gender and politics from an estate-based to a class-based society.
