Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.07
Andrew Nestingen
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.05
Jenna M. Coughlin
{"title":"Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic","authors":"Jenna M. Coughlin","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"30 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138623766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.06
Jasmine Kelekay
{"title":"Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country by Ryan Thomas Skinner (review)","authors":"Jasmine Kelekay","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"23 1","pages":"543 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.10
Kimberly J. La Palm
{"title":"Financial Report for CY 2022","authors":"Kimberly J. La Palm","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"33 4","pages":"561 - 563"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.03
Maj-Britt Frenze
{"title":"Festering Wounds on Heroic Bodies: Depictions of Leprosy and Infection in the riddarasögur and fornaldarsögur","authors":"Maj-Britt Frenze","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"56 10","pages":"481 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139279053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.08
Ellen Rees
{"title":"Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation ed. by Cian Duffy and Robert W. Rix (review)","authors":"Ellen Rees","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"65 4","pages":"552 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.02
Anna-Elena Pääkkölä
{"title":"Reappropriations and Criticism of Finnishness in Tom of Finland, the Film and the Musical","authors":"Anna-Elena Pääkkölä","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"309 2","pages":"451 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.4.01
Natalie M. Van Deusen
{"title":"From Sinner to Saint: Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Laxdæla saga, and the Lives of Women Penitents","authors":"Natalie M. Van Deusen","doi":"10.5406/21638195.95.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/21638195.95.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44446,"journal":{"name":"SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES","volume":"43 8","pages":"429 - 450"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139278150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.3.08
Julie K. Allen
As Peter Thaler points out in his preface to the edited volume Like Snow in the Sun? The German Minority in Denmark in Historical Perspective, the EU border region of Sønderjylland (Southern Jutland/Schleswig-Holstein) is often held up today as a model for the harmonious co-existence of different linguistic and ethnic groups, but it is important to remember that this positive state of affairs did not come about easily or quickly. The Danish- and German-oriented groups that form the majority of the region's population (alongside Frisian and plattdüütsch speakers) spent the better part of two centuries jockeying for political and military dominance of the area, with varying degrees of support or pressure from the Danish and German governments and their allies. The overarching story of nationalistic tensions in the border region has been skillfully and evocatively told in several recent publications, including seminal works by Peter Thaler, an associate professor of history at the University of Southern Denmark whose 2009 book Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German-Danish Borderlands (Purdue University Press) has been foundational for the field. While much of the scholarly focus in such works has been on the challenges faced by the Danish minority living in the duchies occupied or annexed by Germany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thaler's new book looks instead at the German-oriented communities that existed within the Danish unified state (helstat) prior to the Second Schleswig War in 1864 and after the 1920 plebiscites that integrated northern Slesvig into the Danish kingdom, offering a much-needed and thoughtful correlative to the better-known stories about the Danish minority.Like Snow in the Sun, which grew out of an international conference held in the UK in 2019, brings together a welcome array of established and emerging scholars’ complementary perspectives on this complex topic, ranging from Thaler's framing narratives about the underlying issues of nationalist activism to PhD candidate Ryan J. Gesme's careful case study of how the plebiscites engaged with Wilsonian rhetoric of self-determination. The chapter authors include Danes, Germans, Brits, Schleswigians, and an American, exemplifying the transnational reach of the topic and its relevance to contemporary political discourses. Eight of the ten chapters focus exclusively on the twentieth century and beyond, from the Great War through the present, in order to explore how the question of cultural identity in this disputed region has continued to be entangled with transnational geopolitical trends and currents. Although the period-specific case studies are primarily historiographic, some of them also contain helpful discussions of intersecting linguistic, propagandistic, ethnographic, and pedagogical aspects of the politically charged situation in the border region.Thaler's introduction both provides a useful chronological framework for the la
从第4章开始,每一章都提供了另一个谜题,即以德国为导向的社会是如何驾驭20世纪德国发生的爆炸性变化的。亨里克·贝克尔-克里斯滕森在第四章中考察了20世纪20年代和30年代,特别是在德国国家社会主义党崛起并承诺再次修改丹麦-德国边界之后,民族主义动力和政治野心在社区协会结构中的相互作用,但在1940年4月纳粹入侵丹麦之前,他的叙述有些悬念。幸运的是,安妮卡·西曼在第五章的贡献无缝地抓住了叙事线索,并将其贯穿到第二次世界大战,以及随之而来的对社区与丹麦和占领的德国军队的关系的影响,以及考虑到战后立即试图实现政治解决破碎的信任和紧张的社区关系。第六章包含弗兰克·卢博维茨(Frank Lubowitz)对战后几十年德国少数民族社区重组努力的描述,因为它接受了在丹麦人占多数的国家中作为语言少数民族永久生活的现实。他将逐渐融合的过程分为三个阶段——重建、巩固和平等——这三个阶段与社区成员之间的代际变化密切相关。这本书最大的优势之一,特别是在书的后半部分,是它直接接触到现有的德国少数民族社区。借鉴几十年前的研究,迈克尔·拜拉姆(Michael Byram)在第7章中对20世纪80年代该地区教育机构在形成民族认同和社区成员社会化方面的作用的考察,对学校对少数民族认同的中心地位提出了重要观点,但从其狭隘的时间角度来看,感觉有些过时;如果能提供目前的数据来比较和评价他的结论是如何得到证实的,那将是有帮助的。相比之下,接下来的两章更侧重于结束对现在的循环:石勒苏wig的a . p. m . øller丹麦高中的前校长Jørgen k<e:2>在第8章中以专家的视角描述了在过去的25年里,由于外部和内部因素,德国少数民族演变成“被认可的、自信的、完整的、活跃的丹麦社会的一部分”(第9页),而在第9章中,苏格兰斯堪的纳维亚主义者Ruairidh Tarvet评估了少数民族社区目前的混合语言身份。利用最近关于代码转换和双语的调查数据,并探讨了“它如何挑战少数民族作为流离失所的国民的先入之见”(第9页)。塞勒在第10章的结论不仅总结了前几章所追踪的历史轨迹,而且重申了他在早期出版物中提出的许多观点。特别是关于该地区与石勒苏益格历史概念的矛盾关系,以及民族主义运动如何在不同欧洲边境地区发展的文化特殊性。这本紧凑但信息丰富的书令人钦佩地完成了编辑的目标,填补了关于丹麦-德国边境地区复杂历史的学术空白。如果要完全解决两百年来的紧张关系,以丹麦和德国为导向的少数民族社区都需要讲述他们的故事,这将需要多种声音和观点,正如这本书所描述的那样,来公正地讲述这些故事。这本书组织严密,思想上连贯,而文章都是统一的,写得很好,可以接触到广泛的受众,使它们非常适合课堂使用,并为未来的研究提供了坚实的基础,更多的人文和社会学调查政治分裂和文化混杂的影响,因为边境地区的居民已经经历和表达了他们。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.5406/21638195.95.3.04
Gisella Brouwer-Turci, Henk A. van der Liet
Writing about the Modern Breakthrough (MB) means opening a vantage point on a remarkably dynamic phase in the history of Scandinavian literature during the last three decades of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the First World War.1 During this period, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were closely tight to each other in the literary marketplace, in which the Danish literary critic Georg Brandes (1842–1927) played a central role. Brandes proclaimed a new paradigm in modern Scandinavian literature in late 1871, advocating a literature that should engage with social issues and societal problems. In practice, he functioned as a European “literary intermediary,” both introducing new developments in contemporary French, German, and English literature to a Scandinavian readership and, at the same time, being recognized as “one of the main advocates of Scandinavian literature throughout Europe” (Van der Liet 2004, 93–5).Among the social issues that literature was called to discuss, many regarded women's rights, including gender inequality and women's role in the patriarchal society, of key importance. Also delicate questions, such as the role of the Church, arranged marriages, and women's economic independence, were at the heart of Scandinavian art in this era (Ahlström 1947; Bredsdorff 1973; Hjordt-Vetlesen 1993; Garton 1993). Last but not least, femininity, female sexuality, and—within this discourse—the social phenomenon of prostitution were central and widely debated themes in Scandinavian society and culture during the MB. The double moral standards and the existing regulatory system allowed men to satisfy their sexual desires without disturbing “respectable” (young) women—from both the upper and middle class—whose sexuality was considered, and expected to be, dormant (Lundquist 1982; Smith 1989; Blom 2006; Jansdotter and Svanström 2007). In this regard, Garton (2002) speaks about “et splittet syn på seksualiteten” (32) [a split perspective on sexuality], highlighting the idea that, unlike lower-class women, middle- and upper-class women should remain untouched until marriage and were not supposed to enjoy sexual life. This dichotomy, and the biblical connotation of lust as sinful, classified women who, for one reason or another, could or would not meet that strict norm, as moral outcasts (Engelstad 1984; Hjordt-Vetlesen 1993; Forsås-Scott 1997; Logan 1998). All this was within a context in which notions such as women's intellectual inferiority as a consequence of their reproductive role, the absence of female sexual desire, and prostitution as a manifestation of an innate criminal nature were firmly anchored in the scientific discourse of that time (Bredsdorff 1973; Brantly 1991; 2004).During the MB, prostitution was one of the most important societal issues that needed to be discussed. As demonstrated in our previous paper (Brouwer-Turci and Van der Liet 2018), different forms of prostitution and women engaging in sexual transactions were
为此,本研究分析比较了以下几组作品:Elfride Fibiger的《Nutidens Ansvar og Forpligtelser overfor Døtrene at Arbejderklassen og anden ubemidlet Stand》(1889);《今天对工人阶级和其他贫穷阶级的女儿的责任和义务》(以下简称《Nutidens Ansvar og Forpligtelser》)和她的书信体小说《抹大拉的历史》(1877;抹大拉的故事,一个真实的事件);Amalie Skram的小册子《Om Albertine》(1887年);《关于阿尔贝蒂娜》,以及她1885年的小说《康斯坦斯戒指》(1905);以及弗里达·斯特恩霍夫的论文《Penningen och Kärleken》(1908;《金钱与爱情》和她的中篇小说《爱与金钱》(1902;神圣遗产)。本研究之所以关注这些作品,是因为它们与卖淫作为一种复杂的社会现象有着密切的关系,其不同的形式和层次得到了许多历史学家和学者的认可,包括Dahlerup (1983), Garton (1993), Hjordt-Vetlesen (1993), Nordin Hennel (1993), Carlsson Wetterberg (2001);哈姆(2005;2006)。本研究的分析包括对上述文本对的专题仔细阅读,在相关的情况下,辅以一些风格上的考虑,例如每位作者用来强化她的观点、形象或与卖淫表现有关的感觉的修辞。因此,尽管上述三本社会政治著作处于中心地位,但这篇文章显然不是关于斯堪的纳维亚女性写作的社会学或政治研究。这三个非虚构的文本将被用作一个额外的镜头,以便更全面地理解mb期间的卖淫主题。本文的其余部分组织如下。下一部分简要介绍了卖淫作为一种管制制度和废奴主义的历史背景,并解释了MB期间已婚妇女的经济/法律地位。第三、第四和第五部分是本研究的核心,包括对上述六部作品的分析。这些分析都伴随着作者生活和作品的简明语境化,并以非虚构和文学文本之间的比较结束。在本文的最后部分,我们将对这对作品进行交叉比较,以确定这些历史作品对卖淫/性交易现象及其表现的共同点、模式和差异。19世纪最后几十年的特点是发生了许多经济和社会变化,包括关于男女平等必要性的新观念。这种转变,除其他外,与工业革命有关。Sjögren(2010)指出:“伴随着工业化、城市化和移民的巨大经济结构变化导致了家庭结构的改变”(20-1)。获得适当(高等)教育的需要和权利也发挥了重要作用,不仅关系到单身工人阶级妇女的生活,而且关系到中上层阶级妇女的生活。已婚妇女的法律和经济地位也需要改变,例如离婚的权利和拥有财产的权利。正是为了响应这一呼吁,女性活动家们通过广泛的妇女协会、协会和期刊进行了密切的合作,推动立法当局向新的方向发展,以加强法律上的性别平等(Hjordt-Vetlesen 1993)。尽管已婚妇女的经济地位和角色发生了变化,即使在1874年至1889年之间通过了相应的法律,但夫妻之间的完全平等并没有立即确立。例如,已婚妇女仍然没有子女的法定监护权,尽管她们确实有权处置自己的收入,但她们在经济事务中的权力仍然有限(Melby等人,2001年;干燥2010)。此外,在MB期间,18岁以下的女孩为了获得经济稳定而嫁给年龄更大、通常更有经验的男子仍然相当普遍(Garton 1993)。由于1909年至1929年间通过的斯堪的纳维亚改革法案,有了重大的改进,例如终止了丈夫对妻子的法定权力。此外,从现在起,婚姻被视为两个独立实体之间的纽带,男女的最低结婚年龄都提高了。最后但并非最不重要的是,丈夫和妻子现在都可以处置他们带入婚姻的财产(Melby et al. 2001;2006)。这些社会和法律变化也反映在有关卖淫的条例中。
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