Welcoming the ladies with one foot on the brake : Swedish women's ice hockey's road towards legitimacy in the early 1980s
This article focuses on the structural establishment of Swedish women’s icehockey during the early 1980s and the years leading up to the first organisedwomen’s hockey league in Sweden. Mainly, the article is based on archivematerial from The Swedish Ice Hockey Association, especially two committeesthat were appointed to work to establish women’s hockey between the yearsof 1981 and 1984: The Women’
