12 Must-Read Feminist Books by Icelandic Women Writers

12 Must-Read Feminist Books by Icelandic Women Writers

In 1975, 90 percent of Icelandic women went on strike, though they did not call it that. They called it Kvennafrídagurinn, or Women’s Day Off. A day off from factory work, from housework, from care work, from all kinds of vital work that often goes unacknowledged and unpaid to this day. In the fifty years since then, Iceland has become the global leader in gender equity and the first country in the world to elect a female president. Its governme…