The speech links the lesbian issue to the feminist issue, a new and for many people provocative thought.

Martina, who is also the story’s narrator, wants to be free and independent. Gustav, her fiancé, or “husband”, wants to get married and raise a family.

When the play Jösses flickor opened at the Stockholm City Theatre in December 1974 it was considered a political manifestation of the success of the Swedish Women’s Liberation Movement.

The author points out three conceptions of the feminist struggle that she considers to be mistaken.

Some hypotheses as for why and how lesbianism is denied in the patriarchal system and how this affects, not only lesbian, but all women.

These expose Gretel Ammann’s approach to what she considered to be the essential questions concerning the feminist and lesbian struggle.

They demand the total autonomy of women in order to recover their identity and freedom.

This conference exposes the results obtained by a group of women who investigated the causes of many women’s feelings of inferiority, inadequacy and the dependent behavior they develop in consequence.