Wedding rings

Titel

Wedding rings

Beskrivning

Gunner Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar was born in 1683 and died 1744. At the age of 25 she dressed up as a man and joined the army in Kalmar. Ulrika married a woman, Maria Lönman, and they lived together for several years. This was “an abomination to the Lord”, a crime against the Commandments and against secular law. Ulrika Eleonora had always been more interested in masculine activities, such as shooting and riding, than in more womanly occupations. She had never wanted a man but had fallen in love with Maria. Perhaps, quite simply, she was homosexual. Becoming a man could also have been her way of controlling her own life, instead of being married off and put under a husband’s authority, like her sisters. They really got married and Ulrika Eleonora called her William Ekstedt, some time after the marriage she told her wife that she wasn’t a man, but they continued to live together

Alternate Description

These wedding rings are NOT the original ones. So the image shows the showcase and the context with the army during the 18th century. But the rings which are exposed in the showcase are symbols of a unstraight relationship between two women during a time when this was totally forbidden. This unstraight woman Ulrika Eleonora maybe found her way to live by being a soldier with a maid.

Identifierare

SE_UNSTRAIGHT_9

Typ

Autre

Other

Åtkomsträttigheter

accessible to public

Licens

Creative Commons - Attribution-Share Alike

Status

completed

Redigerat datum

2015-08-13T19:22:48+02:00

Skapat datum

2012-12-23T14:17:03+01:00

Täckning

Kalmar

Sweden

EU

Stockholm