Julia Kinberg (

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: Rosenbaum; 1874–1945) was a Swedish physician and feminist who is known for her involvement in the establishment of a feminist organization ''Frisinnade Kvinnor''.

Early life and education

She was born in

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on 1 April 1874 into a bourgeois family. She received a degree in medicine in Uppsala in 1907.

Career and activities

She was an assistant at Uppsala University's medical and pediatric outpatient clinic between 1904 and 1905. Following her graduation she served as a

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and a physician in Stockholm. She worked at Stockholm schools as a physician from 1912. She and another physician Ada Nilsson established a feminist organization ''Frisinnade Kvinnor'' which supported the eugenic feminism. Kinberg and Karolina Widerström involved in many activities concerning the women-related topics such as prostitution, abortion and the contraception. Kinberg was a member of the board of the State Educational Institution for Mentally Retarded Girls in

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from 1922 to 1944 and the chairman of the Mother's Aid Board in Älvsborg County Council from 1937 to 1941. She was also active in charities, the Red Cross and the

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. During the

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she contributed to the activities for

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Books

Kinberg authored two books: ''Handledning i sexuell undervisning och uppfostran'' (1924; ] which she cowrote with Alma Sundquist and ''Sexuell etik'' (1931; ). The former book presented an alternative view about the mother–child-father relationship in contrast to the Freudian view and defended the idea that sexual hygiene was part

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. She also translated German psychiatrist

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's book entitled ''Das Verbrechen und seine Bekämpfung'' () into Swedish with her first husband Olof Kinberg.

Personal life and death

She married psychiatrist Olof Kinberg in 1898, and they divorced in 1915. During this period she began to use her husband's surname. She married Axel von Sneidern in 1917, and since then she was known as Julia Kinberg von Sneidern. She had children. Kinberg died in Holm on 17 June 1945.

Awards

Kinberg was awarded

Illis quorum ''Illis quorum'' (''Illis quorum meruere labores'') (English: "For Those Whose Labors Have Deserved It") is a gold medal awarded for outstanding contributions to Swedish culture, science or society. The award was introduced in 1784 by King Gusta ...

in 1934.

References

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