{"id":2141,"date":"2019-03-08T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2019-03-08T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:13:56","slug":"on-international-womens-day-swedish-writer-elin-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=2141","title":{"rendered":"On International Womens&#8217; Day &#8211; Swedish Writer Elin W\u00e4gner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate and appreciate Elin W\u00e4gner, peace activist, author and suffragette who promoted peace on earth, peace with the earth and peace with ourselves. Toward the end of her writing career, Elin W\u00e4gner also became more involved in matters relating to the environment. At the end of\u00a0<em>V\u00e4ckarklocka<\/em>, 1941, possibly her most influential book, she lists the basic needs of humanity, such as clean water and unpolluted air and soil.\u00a0<em>V\u00e4ckarklocka<\/em>\u00a0can be classified as an eco-feminist work long before such a concept even existed. Elin W\u00e4gner\u2019s environmental concerns predate Rachel Carson\u2019s\u00a0<em>Silent Spring<\/em>\u00a0from 1963 and also permeate her concept book Peace with the Earth\u00a0<em>Fred med jorden<\/em>, 1940.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Her regional landscape book Thousand years in the (Swedish Region of Sm\u00e5land)\u00a0<em>Tusen \u00e5r i Sm\u00e5land<\/em>, 1939, is written in the same spirit. She obtained information for the book by traversing the region by bike along with her friend Flory Gate.<\/p>\n<p>Elin W\u00e4gner\u2019s last novel,\u00a0<em>Vinden v\u00e4nde bladen<\/em>, 1947, is also about a thousand years in the region and she describes life in the various eras. Popular folk myths are mixed with thoughts on modernity and its effects. The people of Sm\u00e5land milk with the help of both magical rhymes and modern milking machines. Elin W\u00e4gner has been characterised as anti-modern, but she was only really opposed to certain aspects of modernity, such as technological advances in the arms industry and modern agriculture, which makes use of artificial fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fredmedjorden.se\/images\/fredmedjorden-bok.jpg\" width=\"366\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate and appreciate Elin W\u00e4gner, peace activist, author and suffragette who promoted peace on earth, peace with the earth and peace with ourselves. Toward the end of her writing career, Elin W\u00e4gner also became more involved in matters relating to the environment. At the end of\u00a0V\u00e4ckarklocka, 1941, possibly her most influential book, she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=2141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On International Womens&#8217; Day &#8211; Swedish Writer Elin W\u00e4gner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}