" Now About All of These Women in the Swedish Film Industry is a triumph! Not only for the academic feminism and film movement which dates from 1975, but also for the contemporary struggle for gender diversity in national film and television industries worldwide. While other nations remain frustrated in their attempts to achieve gender diversity in the media industry workplace, Sweden achieved their goal of "50/50 by 2020," only to back off the commitment in the name of "artistic freedom." Around this recent drama in which they came so close, four Swedish feminist academics position historical profiles, case studies, and interviews from the 1910s to the present. Then, they tell the rest of the world not to give up. There is no other industry that has come this close-and there is no other book quite like this one that has ever been published in either film and media studies or feminist studies." -- Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University, USA, and author of Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (2018) " Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry is brilliant in so many ways; for the women who struggled for gender equality and diversity captured so eloquently in the case studies and interviews that frame this book and for the stories of resistance and freedom that makes up the many voices of Swedish film industry. Original, well written, and thoroughly researched, this book will leave you craving for more. An absolute triumph!" -- Vicki Karaminas, Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Massey University, New Zealand, Aotearoa "This is a book like no other on the history of women in film and the fight for gender equality.

Using the Swedish film industry as its case study it sheds new and bright light on historical factors that have always constrained women and the continuing influence of that history on the contemporary industry that has become known for its gender equality through the SFI's leadership. The range of approaches by the authors from investigations of legal rights to authorship and work and pay conditions for actors to the use of interviews with filmmakers and analysis of images of women on screen brings together feminist film studies and production studies in an innovative and comprehensive way. This is a call to us all not to ease up or become complacent about the ongoing and complex work required to make our film industries, film histories and the art of film itself inclusive." -- Shelley Cobb, Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, University of Southampton, UK.