Birgitta Hjalmarson, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/birgittahjalmarson/ Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:54:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Woman, Man, or Both? https://booksbywomen.org/woman-man-or-both-by-birgitta-hjalmarson/ https://booksbywomen.org/woman-man-or-both-by-birgitta-hjalmarson/#respond Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:06:50 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27308 Garbo portrayed you in Queen Christina, beautiful, when you, in fact, were not. These days you’re celebrated as an early feminist, although you, of course, would have sneered. And to be fair, some still call you a traitor, even to yourself. Once, at a dinner party in Sweden, my host showed me a fragment of […]

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