Scandinavian Homosexualities: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies

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ISBN: 9780789005083 | 0789005085
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/26/1998

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Scandinavian Homosexualities: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies provides an opportunity for the non-Nordic world to learn about the developments in homosexual relationships and gay life in Nordic culture. It includes contributions from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. Many of the major social sciences and literary disciplines are represented, including history, sociology, the new social geography, discourse analysis, and cultural studies.

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Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Dedication	p. xxi
Introduction: Sketching the Framework for a History and Sociology of Homosexualities in the Nordic Countries	p. 1
Authority and Knowledge
State Policy, Popular Discourse, and the Silence on Homosexual Acts in Early Modern Sweden	p. 15
A Premodern Legacy: The "Easy" Criminalization of Homosexual Acts Between Women in the Finnish Penal Code of 1889	p. 53
Creating Their Own Private and Public: The Male Homosexual Life Space in a Nordic City During High Modernity	p. 81
The Power of Confession: The Role of the Criminal Law and Courtpractices in the Production of Knowledge Concerning Sexuality Between Women: Finland, in the 1950s	p. 117
Experiences and Politics
A Dung Beetle in Distress: Hans Christian Andersen Meets Karl Maria Kertbeny, Geneva, 1860: Some Notes on the Archaeology of Homosexuality and the Importance of Tuning	p. 139
Identity, Place, and Erotic Community Within Gay Leather Culture in Stockholm	p. 163
Dressing Up in Power: Tom of Finland and Gay Male Body Politics	p. 185
The Ambiguity of Lesbian and Gay Marriages: Change and Continuity in the Symbolic Order	p. 207
Gay and Lesbian Politics: Assimilation or Subversion: A Danish Perspective	p. 233
Index	p. 245
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