Hjördis Levin (born 4 June 1930) is a Swedish historian and author whose field of research focuses on gender studies.
Hildur (nickname, "Hjördis") Charlotta Eriksson was born in Smedby, Östergötland County on 4 June 1930.
She has worked as an employee of the Swedish Women's Left Federation's magazine Vi Mänskor from 1969.
She was an employee of Focus in the 1980s and wrote biographical articles on women for Svenskt biografiskt lexikon.
[3] Levin's 1994 thesis deals with the sexual debate in 1880–1910 and how it led to the so-called Preventive Law in 1910, which prohibited the dissemination of use or knowledge of contraception among the public.