Hot Love and Cold People. Sexual Liberalism as Political Escapism in Radical Sweden

• Main Author: Carl Marklund
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German; English
• Published: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2009
• Subjects: History of Science; Sweden; Civil Society; Identities; Political Parties & Social Movements; History of Ideas; Popular Culture; Social Policy; Welfare State; Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology; GN301-674; History of Northern Europe. Scandinavia; DL1-1180; North Pole; Roland
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1a552b45eaf746289db8ef9533faaed3

The longstanding association of the “North” with “rationality” on the one hand and “Sweden” with “sex” on the other fulfilled a particular role in the philosophical geography of the radical 1960s and 1970s. By looking at works by Susan Sontag and Roland Huntford, this article proposes that Sweden co...