Från skolflicka till ung kvinna på 1960-talet. Återberättade minnen från Örebro.

Abstract

The norm for Swedish women’s occupations changed in the 1960s. This study is based on interviews with women who are now in their sixties. When they started school in the year 1960, Swedish women were expected to be housewives. When they left high school in the year 1969 the norm had changed, and women were expected to have a job. The survey, with theories from Bourdieu and Giddens, investigates what dreams the interviewed women had for their future, during the years 1964-1969, and how that may have influenced their life choices as young women. It is also an investigation into the interviewed women’s surroundings as schoolgirls, based on their memories of parents, teachers, and leisure activities. Society was changing, pop music on the radio and the Vietnam war on television. From a working-class background, these girls encountered and embraced similar identities in the 1960s as many Swedish middle-class youths.