ABSTRACT
This chapter brings together and summarizes the main points of the book. Having explored a spectrum of play, agency and desire, this study has shown how the “masculine” modern woman was not one “type” in Swedish popular media in the 1920s, but, rather, a mirror face of many different varieties of cultural anxieties, concerns and also hopes. It is argued that the oftentimes lively efforts in Swedish popular media to define the modern girl reflect, above all, a desire to (re-)draw the boundaries of and between masculinity and femininity, whether in regard to fashion, sports, body ideals or sexual agency. Ultimately, the idea of an ongoing “masculinization” of women thus inspired in Sweden not only debates on female masculinity but also a pushing of the boundaries of femininity.
