Historisk tidskrift

En ”wall of text”

Anne Berg — 2025-02-17

Bönderna, staten och flottan, 1522–1640

Dag Retsö — 2025-02-17

Röster och perspektiv i det regionala supplikväsendet mellan tidigmodern och modern tid

Magnus Linnarsson — 2025-02-17

Dynamics of Rural Migrations in Northern Sweden from the mid-19th century to today

Michel Oris — 2025-02-17

Svenska integrationsdiskurser

Mats Wickström — 2025-02-17

Lyxjippo och skräp

Emma Severinsson — 2025-02-17

Boendehygien i välfärdsstaden

Andrés Brink Pinto — 2025-02-17

Social hygiene in the welfare city: Approaches to the housing question in Malmö, 1900–1910

In 1911 the Swedish city of Malmö got its first housing inspection service. It was put forward in a motion by two social-democratic city councillors and supported by conservative councillors as well as by the women’s movement. The vote in the city council passed unanimously and without discussion. This article focuses on how the question of housing was articulated in a way that meant inspections were the answer.

The three stakeholders studied here shared an understanding that the root of the problem was low standards, a corollary of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. Malmö’s policymakers pointed to low material standards and framed the problem as something that could be solved by municipal social expertise in the form of female housing inspectors. Unusually, the local social-democratic party did not discuss housing inspection to any significant extent; instead, they discussed the housing question more generally as part of their anti-capitalist critique, especially about the programmes to encourage home ownership. The forum where housing inspection was discussed was the local chapter of the Fredrika Bremer-förbundet, Sweden’s foremost women’s rights organisation. They took stock of housing standards in Malmö, built model homes, and lobbied for official housing inspections. For them, the home was primarily a female space, which should be made better by female housing inspectors.

Using these three articulations, the article presents a genealogy of the housing question, and how municipal policy was not only gendered, but had gendering effects. It is a contribution to a growing field of urban history focused on the welfare city, and enlarges on key concepts for the categorisation of welfare city regimes by analysing liberal rule as one primarily geared towards the production of freedom.

En svensktillverkad erektion

Maya Ström — 2025-02-17

An erection Made in Sweden: Technical aids and the struggle for corporeality in an expert-led impotence discourse, 1978–1996

There were significant ideational changes in the Swedish expert-led discourse about the diagnosis and treatment of impotence between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s. While earlier research in an Anglophone contexts claims the 1980s saw an important paradigm shift from psychological explanations of impotence to physiological, other research has claimed this to not have been the case in Sweden. Instead, this Swedish research has emphasised the introduction of Viagra in 1998 as the reason a biologically reductionist perspective became influential. Before then, there was a complex, integrative take on impotence among Swedish experts, where both physical and mental factors were of comparable importance.

However, the literature is silent on why and how this integrative understanding arose in Sweden. By taking a longer view and incorporating a broader empirical basis, I suggest the integrated understanding of impotence’s causes was a response to tendencies towards what I call somatification. Erection aids that predated Viagra contributed to the process, most notably the popularisation of injection therapy in the mid-1980s on, but also a Swedish-made penis pump marketed by the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. While the pump was not widely commercially successful, the fact of its production and advertising attests to a general trend towards somatification.

I would argue an integrative approach to impotence management was encouraged by the introduction not only of the American biopsychosocial model to Swedish sexology, but also technical aids. Yet the technical aids’ effectiveness in overcoming even severe physical limitations and the new emphasis on a non-dual understanding of body and mind led to a blurring of physiological and psychological spheres of treatment. This meant that technical solutions could be advocated as impotence treatments despite the underlying cause, which shows that tools such as Viagra need not rely on biologically reductionist perspectives, in contrast to previous conclusions about the Swedish context.

Nytt om historisk forskning

redaktionssekreteraren — 2025-02-17

Jagar hungriga vargar bäst?

Ina Lindblom — 2025-02-17

Den haltande habitueringen

Mari Eyice — 2025-02-17

Replik på ”Att skriva sammanläggningsavhandling i historia”

Maria Ågren — 2025-02-17

Kontrareplik: Förtydliganden och reflektioner kring fältets särart

Wojtek Jezierski — 2025-02-17

Genmäle till Arne Jarrick

Anton Jansson — 2025-02-17

Forskarnas folkhem

Henrik Björck — 2025-02-17

Li Bennich-Björkman, Sverker Gustavsson & Mats Lindberg (red.), Hålla huvudet kallt: Om distanserat engagemang i en uppjagad tid (Göteborg: Daidalos 2023). 384 s.

Moa Ekbom — 2025-02-17

Arne Jarrick, Lagarna och de mänskliga behoven: En fyratusenårig historia (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur 2023). 292 s.

Göran Malmstedt — 2025-02-17

Jonathan Adams, Jews in East Norse Literature: A Study of Othering in Medieval Denmark and Sweden (Berlin: de Gruyter 2023). 2 vol., 1 192 s.

Kim Bergqvist — 2025-02-17

Lars Ericson Wolke, Nationens avskum, militärens elit: Myt och sanning om de värvade soldaterna i Sverige (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur 2023). 283 s.

Olof Blomqvist — 2025-02-17

Eva Helen Ulvros, Hedvig Eleonora och hennes tid (Lund: Historiska media 2023). 335 s.

Alexander Isacsson — 2025-02-17

Kekke Stadin, Promenerandets historia: Från kungligt framträdande till folknöje (Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag 2023). 320 s.

Peter K. Andersson — 2025-02-17

Martin Åberg, Sextio herrnhutiska liv (Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2023). 174 s.

Johannes Ljungberg — 2025-02-17

Leif Runefelt, Några ögonblicks förundran: Marknaden för ambulerande underhållning i Sverige 1760–1880 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2023). 415 s.

Christopher Landstedt — 2025-02-17

Jan-Gunnar Rosenblad & Gundel Söderholm, Kvinnorna, makten, religionen: Myterna kring: Drottning Margareta, Kristina Gyllenstierna, Drottning Kristina (Stockholm: Carlssons förlag 2023). 357 s.

Louise Berglund — 2025-02-17

Hjalmar Falk, My Klockar Linder & Petter Tistedt (red.), Perspektiv på politisk idéhistoria (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola 2023). 336 s.

Nils Edling — 2025-02-17

Per Eliasson, Lars Ericson Wolke & Gunnar Åselius, Krigsplanläggning och ledning: Generalstaben och idén om en högsta ledning i den svenska försvarsmakten 1873–2023 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2023). 288 s.

Roald Berg — 2025-02-17

Isak Lidström, De sista bödlarna: Berättelsen om en yrkeskårs upplösning (Stockholm: Natur & kultur 2023). 207 s.

Martin Ericsson — 2025-02-17

Nils Uddenberg, Drömmaren: En bok om Sven Hedin (Stockholm: Natur & Kultur 2023). 521 s.

Andreas Åkerlund — 2025-02-17

Christopher Collstedt, Urkatastrofen förkroppsligad: Krigsfångarna och den moderna humanismens genombrott i Sverige 1914–1921 (Lund: Nordic Academic Press 2023). 191 s.

Olof Blomqvist — 2025-02-17

Tobias Berglund & Niclas Sennerteg, Baltikums befrielse (Stockholm: Natur & kultur 2023). 507 s.

Per Bolin — 2025-02-17

Oscar Österberg (red.), Någonstans i Sverige: En antologi med lokalhistoriska perspektiv på Sverige och Förintelsen (Stockholm: Forum för levande historia 2023). 289 s.

Izabela A. Dahl — 2025-02-17

Ingrid Carlberg, Marionetterna: En berättelse om världen som politisk teater (Stockholm: Norstedts 2023). 421 s.

Johan Stenfeldt — 2025-02-17