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In:Nordic Literature: A comparative history: Volume II: Figural nodes
Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Nathaniel Kramer, Christopher Oscarson, Linda Haverty Rugg and Karin Sanders
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 38] 2026
► pp. 753–769

Dreaming childhood, dreaming society, dreaming Sweden

The autonomous child in the welfare state

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Article outline
  • Autonomy
  • The legacy of Ellen Key
  • Autonomous and happy
  • Autonomous and alone
  • Autonomous and other
  • Autonomous and alienated
  • The child is watching
  • Notes
  • Works cited
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