The Swedish Image of Viking Age Women: Stereotype, Generalisation and Beyond

• The article demonstrates how the Swedish view of the Nordic Viking Age woman developed within a specific social situation at the end of the nineteenth century. The dominant gender ideology affected the formation of this image, which became a long-lived stereotype. Recently, its content partly merged with another image derived from completely different social and gender ideological contexts. A lack of conciousness of the different historical situations, of which the ideas are a part, has resulted in a contamination of gender ideologies.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Historiography of archaeology

Viking Age

Gender studies

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