ISBN:
9780789005083
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (274 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Scandinavian Homosexualities : Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies
DDC:
306.76/6/071048
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Scandinavian Homosexualities offers non-Scandinavian readers a rare opportunity to explore the history, sociology, notions, experiences, and cultural politics of homosexuality in Scandinavian societies in English. This unique insight into some of the most advanced countries in regard to institutionalized civil rights for lesbians and gays will help you direct change and progress in your own country.Chapters in Scandinavian Homosexualities draw from a range of theoretical and methodological strands to give you an overall picture of homosexuality in Scandinavian society. They cover a wide range
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Introduction: Sketching the Framework for a History and Sociology of Homosexualities in the Nordic Countries; Part I: Authority and Knowledge; State Policy, Popular Discourse, and the Silence on Homosexual Acts in Early Modern Sweden; A Premodern Legacy: The ""Easy"" Criminalization of Homosexual Acts Between Women in the Finnish Penal Code of 1889; Creating Their Own Private and Public: The Male Homosexual Life Space in a Nordic City During High Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
The Power of Confession: The Role of the Criminal Law and Courtpractices in the Production of Knowledge Concerning Sexuality Between Women: Finland, in the 1950sPart II: 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; Identity, Place, and Erotic Community Within Gay Leather Culture in Stockholm; Dressing Up in Power: Tom of Finland and Gay Male Body Politics; The Ambiguity of Lesbian and Gay Marriages: Change and Continuity in the Symbolic Order
Description / Table of Contents:
Gay and Lesbian Politics: Assimilation or Subversion: A Danish PerspectiveIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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