När det personliga blev politik
Grupp 8
The main purpose of this essay is to look closer at how and when the Swedish women?s organization Grupp 8 changed their initial socialistic ideological approach and turned it into a feministic one during 1971 to 1979. By 1979 the group was referring to them self as a feministic movement. This is done by analyzing the way Grupp 8: s discussion in the areas of women in relation to work, family and society changes. The primary information is represented by the groups own magazine Kvinnobulletinen. The essay shows that they underwent a change in their ideology which occurred already in 1976 when they moved closer to not only a more feministic terminology, but also gave problems that where in many ways only related to women more room than problems referring to class. They still showed resistance against the capitalistic society but now they added a new dimension for what they believed stood as the reasons for the oppression of women, the patriarchate. In 1976 they had made a hesitated move towards a new ideological alignment. By 1979 it is clear that there has been a change when by far most of the reasoning around class oppression has been exchange with oppression on women and the emancipation of women.