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By Jens Rydström, Kati Mustola
This ebook offers a coherent heritage of legal legislation and homosexuality in Scandinavia from 1842 to 1999, a interval within which same-sex love was once outlawed or topic to critical criminal regulations within the Scandinavian penal codes. This used to be the case in so much nations in Northern Europe, however the e-book argues that the improvement in Scandinavia was once diverse, partially decided via the constitution of the welfare kingdom. 5 skilled students of the heritage of homosexuality describe how same-sex hope has been regulated of their respective nations up to now a hundred and sixty years. With backgrounds in historical past, sociology, and gender stories, the participants symbolize an interdisciplinary technique. Their contributions current for the 1st time a complete heritage of homosexuality in Scandinavia. between different issues, it comprises the main wide examine but written in any language approximately Iceland's homosexual and lesbian heritage. additionally for the 1st time, the ebook discusses intimately same-sex sexuality among ladies. woman homosexuality used to be outlawed in japanese Scandinavia, yet no longer within the Western elements of this area. It additionally analyzes the fashionable tendency to incorporate lesbian girls within the legal point of the medicalization of homosexuality and the growing to be impression of scientific discourse at the legislations. Jens Rydstrm is lecturer in heritage, relatively gender background, at Stockholm college (Sweden) and the writer of Sinners and voters: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 18801950. he's at present engaged on the background of legislation on registered partnership within the Nordic nations. Kati Mustola is a learn fellow on the division of Sociology of the college of Helsinki (Finland). She is at present all in favour of study at the scenario of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender humans within the office. She additionally focuses on Finnish lesbian and homosexual heritage. She has edited a number of books in lesbian and homosexual reviews and for a few years was once answerable for the educating of lesbian experiences on the Christina Institute for Women's reviews on the collage of Helsinki.
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Here we will, however, use Scandinavia, a concept more familiar to non-Scandinavians, to cover the whole area of the 37 38 Criminally Queer countries members of the Nordic Council. For an overview of Scandinavian history, see Nordstrom 2000. 5 Giddens 1992, 2, 26-28; Foucault 1975. 6 Sedgwick 1990, 36-39. 7 Hirschfeld 1904/1991; 1914, 125-147, 348-369; 2000; Ellis 1904; Oosterhuis 2000, 43-55, esp. 48; Terry 1999, 43-45. 8 On Brand and The Community of the Special, see Herzer 1997. 9 Female and male separatism are radically different in their underlying reasons and political effects.
Denmark has since amended its law on transmission of contagious diseases (Straffeloven § 252). Signild Vallgårda has discussed the different politics in Denmark and Sweden. She contends that Denmark defined AIDS much more as a gay disease, and therefore used liberal methods, since attitudes to homosexuality were liberal. In Sweden, on the other hand, the new epidemic was defined as concerning a number of risk groups, notably drug users. There was a long tradition of coercion used in Swedish drug politics, and that tradition determined the way in which AIDS was dealt with.
In cases of dependency, the ages of consent were 18 for heterosexual and 21 for homosexual intercourse. 27 In Finland, sexual acts with persons under 18 were tried until 1971 under chapter 20, section 7, subsections 1, 2, and 3. This paragraph did not differentiate victims according to gender, so it is not possible to know how many cases concerned homosexual contacts with underage persons. From 1971, fornication with a person of the same sex under 18 (or 21 in cases of dependency) was regulated by chapter 20, section 5, subsection 2 of the 1889 Penal Code.