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Om den ekonomisk-historiska konsten att läsa skönlitteratur
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In: Långa linjer och många fält. - Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. - 9789198194777 - 9789198194760 ; , s. 279-323
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The economic-historic art of reading novels has the potential to generate more complex images of social and economic contexts than what the analysis of more traditional source material sometimes can. Studying novels can also give ideas of researching other circumstances than are perhaps common within economic history. The novel’s perspective makes it possible to observe overlooked circumstances. Finally, the reading of novels can make a search for the everyday perceptions of economic and social circumstances easier. This is how the reading of novels can contribute to economic historic research.At the heart of our reading are the economic and social processes and contexts against which the main plot is usually told. Three novels from the first half of the twentieth century have been used. They all depict life in the countryside and by using these we try to uncover ideas about reactions to the technical and organizational development in farming, the migration from the countryside, especially by young women, and the economic inequalities between the urban life and the countryside.
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- Svanström, Yvonne, 1965-
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Criminalising the john : a Swedish gender model?
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In: The politics of prostitution. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 9780521540698 - 0521833191 ; , s. 225-244
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- Svanström, Yvonne, 1965-
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En ny världsordning
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In: En samtidig världshistoria. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144074375 ; , s. 679-712
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- Svanström, Yvonne, 1965-
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Policing Public Women : The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm 1812-1880
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This dissertation studies the development of a regulation of prostitution in Stockholm during the period 1812-1880. The development of the regulation system is seen in the light of an analytical framework, developed from Carole Pateman's ideas on the sexual contract, and a feministic critique and elaboration of Jürgen Habermas's ideas on the public sphere.The regulation of prostitution was a common characteristic for many metropolises in Europe during the nineteenth century, where supposedly loose and lecherous women were medically and spatially controlled to impede the spread of venereal diseases. Stockholm, and Sweden as a whole, went from a non-gendered to a gendered control of venereal disease, which eventually developed into a spatial control of public women.This study argues that the practices of a regulation system was at first part of an attempt to import what was seen as part of modernisation. Rather than to prohibit extra-marital sexual relations, these were to be controlled and supervised. Eventually the system was adapted to local circumstances in Stockholm, and a control of women's sexuality in public became part of a metropolitan modernity.In the process of the professionalisation of groups such as the police and the physicians, public women were over time perceived as a group of professional prostitutes. The possibility to live off prostitution as a transitory stage in women's lives disappeared, and prostitution became a medically and spatially controlled trade.
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- Svanström, Yvonne, 1965-
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Prostitution as non-labour leading to forced labour. Vagrancy and Gender in Sweden and Stockholm, 1919–1939
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In: European Review of History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1350-7486 .- 1469-8293. ; 29:2, s. 145-169
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As in many countries, the inter-war years in Sweden were a turbulent period involving economic crisis, ensuing depression, unemployment and political instability, but also cultural change, emancipation, the granting of the right to vote for women, increased social rights and social welfare. During this period of change, legal remnants from the Middle Ages, such as vagrancy legislation, were in place to control specific parts of society. The legislation stated that people without means of sustenance who lived in a ‘manner … that is hazardous to public security, order and decency’ could be arrested and sentenced to forced labour. Although they generally decreased in number, sentences of forced labour continued to be enforced, and women were almost exclusively sentenced on suspicion of prostitution. When women’s labour was discussed during the inter-war period prostitution was discussed as moral contagion, rather than as a way to support oneself. In practice, in the Stockholm area, vagrancy legislation was used as an arbitrary method to partly uphold the regulation of prostitution, which was abolished in 1919. Sentences to forced labour decreased over time, partly through legislative changes. Still, when Europe was on the verge of war, there were still a handful of women and men who were sentenced to forced labour specifically because of their way of life.
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- Svanström, Yvonne, 1965-
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Prostitution as Vagrancy : Sweden 1923-1964
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In: Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention. - : Routledge. - 1404-3858 .- 1651-2340. ; 7:2, s. 142-163
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article argues for the need of a historical perspective when discussing the construction of social and criminal state policy and legislation. The article discusses prostitution and women in prostitution as these were perceived in different commissions in Sweden during 1923–1964. During the period women in prostitution went from being characterized as ‘normal’ but a menace to society, to having hereditary deficiencies, to psychopathological and later to be seen as sociopaths. They should be corrected for the sake of the nation and society but also for their own sake. This article also shows that the conceptualization of prostitution as a question of male demand rather than female supply could be seen as early as in the 1950s. This demand of a change of policy, unheard for decades but then picked up again, has to be seen as a liberal feminist legacy rather than as a social democratic welfare development
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