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18.03.2025 17:30-19:00
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Torget

Designing Motherhood: 50 Years of Legal Abortion

Lena Lennerhed. Photo: Per Strandberg. Malin Clausson. Photo: Per Englund. Irena Pozar. Photo: Lotte Fernvall/Aftonbladet. Sandra Pandevski. Photo: Per Englund.

When free abortion was introduced in Sweden in 1975, it marked a historic milestone for women’s rights and reproductive health. Today, 50 years later, approximately 36,000 people undergo an abortion in Sweden each year. In this conversation, we explore the complex history of abortion, its significance today, and how society, design, and architecture have influenced the development of abortion rights.

Program

17:30 Short guided tour of Designing Motherhood
18:00 Conversation at Torget

Participants

Lena Lennerhed – Professor of History of Ideas, Södertörn University.
Sandra Pandevski and Malin Clausson – journalists and authors, currently presenting the book Abortion – 50 Years of Legal Abortion, 50 Stories.

Moderator

Irena Pozar – editor-in-chief of VeckoRevyn and columnist at Aftonbladet, who has investigated maternity care in Sweden.

This program series is presented in collaboration between ArkDes and Stockholms Kvinnohistoriska ↗ and is inspired by the Designing Motherhood exhibition, on view at ArkDes until August 31, 2025.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

17:30–19:00

Torget

Free of charge. Limited seats.

Swedish

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