A female success : The debate over female succession to the throne in the 17th and 20th centuries

A female success The debate over female succession to the throne in the 17th and 20th centuries The purpose of the essay was to analyse how the discussion and attitude was towards femalesuccession to the throne before her accession to the throne. The timeperiod I chose toinvestigate is the 17th centyry, the time before Kristina´s accession to the throne, and the 20thcentury until 1980, when our current succession order came into force, which concerns ourCrown Princess Victoria. That way I saw if there was any change in opinions regarding thefact that is a woman who assumes the throne. My method has been to study previous researchand parlimentary protocols to get answears to the questions. As a theory, I have started fromthe two concepts of gender segregation and hierarchy. The debate of female succession to thethrone and the debate on change to the succession order can be seen from a genderperspective, which ones were positive or negative to the introduction of female succession.The analyse showed that in the 16th century and a bit into the 20th century, women wereconsidered to be subordinate sex. It was thought that the woman could not or would not ruleover a kingdom or over the man. It was important to have male regent. But somewhere in themiddle of the 20th century, there was a change from a gender perspective when talking aboutfemale succession to the throne. Who wanted to make the woman visible, lift her out of onesubordinate position in society. That the debate took a long time before a change in thesuccession order was due to a parallell discussion about a republic rather then of equalsuccession to the throne