Historiska sexualpolitiska texter från eller om Sverige, som problematiserar dagens debatter om sexualpolitik. Texterna är kommenterade av Sveriges vassaste forskare i sexualitetshistoria.

Sexualpolitiska nyckeltexter innehåller historiska sexualpolitiska texter från eller om Sverige. Här återpubliceras dikter, riksdagsdebatter, teckningar, pamfletter, litterära skildringar, affischer, utredningar och en t-shirt som alla problematiserar dagens debatter om sexualpolitik och ger en fördjupad förståelse av hur sexualitet förståtts, praktiserats och politiserats. Varje nyckeltext analyseras och kommenteras av forskare som sätter in texterna i sitt historiska sammanhang.

Texterna är kommenterade av flera av Sveriges vassaste forskare i sexualitetshistoria: Carl Michael Edenborg, Sara Edenheim, Hanna Hallgren, Lena Lennerhed, Ulla Manns, Yvonne Svanström, Ebba Witt-Brattström m fl.

One can consider that there may be a hidden agenda behind Sweden’s previous Minister for International Development Cooperation, Hillevi Engström’s, sudden declaration to freeze aid to Uganda in the spring of 2014 (apart from fishing for votes among the Swedish LGBT community). In the history of same-sex sexuality Western governments and states have not voluntarily promoted LGBT rights, unless being pressured from below. Therefore, I will start this paper with examining how conditional aid to protect LGBT rights has been discussed in the LGBT movement in Sweden. I will then move on to discuss the problematic universal homosexual citizen, and continue with problematizing the illiberal turn when using aid conditionalis to promote ”queer” citizenship. Doing so I will apply the concept homotransnationalism – a modification of Jasbir Puar’s concept homonationalism (Puar 2007).

Stor antologi med originaltexter som haft betydelse för svensk könspolitik, från Almqvists "Det går an" 1839 till Schymans "talibantal" 2002. Nyskrivna forskarkommentarer till alla texter. Redaktörer är genushistorikerna Klara Arnberg, Fia Sundevall och David Tjeder.

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Klara Arnberg, Fia Sundevall, David Tjeder: Äktenskapsdebatt och rösträttskamp: könspolitiska nyckeltexter 1830-1930

Today the production and globalisation of sexual identities and norms is (beside other activities such as tourism, and the globalisation of cultural products etc.) distributed through international organizations, such as EU and OAS. EU and OAS use Treaties to get rights discourses implemented in member states. Treaties have become increasingly important actors in the globalization of the requirements for sexual citizenship as they produce protection and rights – and thus (following Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Kosofsky-Sedgwick and others such as Richardson) new norms, or new customary laws, or practices. EU and OAS Treaties on sexualities shapes images of a modern sexual citizen and consequently produces certain images of sexual cosmopolitans (such as a universal gay or lesbian) connoted with metropolitan modernity, progress, openness and freedom – to be compared with images of the Others undeveloped sexuality norms. The sexual cosmopolitan can and should be deconstructed.

After historicizing sexual citizenship and queering the gay and lesbian cosmopolitans as Euroamerican historical products, as well as emphasizing that the struggle for sexual rights at the same time produces sexual norms, I will move on to problematize the globalization of LGBT-rights and sexual citizenship-claims. The globalized claims can function as regulators and reconfigurations of sexuality and gender, and needs to be analyzed and de-constructed.