Modernity and periphery: The sexual modernisation of Greenland

• Main Author: Rydström, Jens
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Gender Studies; Arctic; Greenland; Rasmussen; greenlander*; greenlandic; inuit
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/1764528

The paper will argue that the centre-periphery dynamics of the modernisation of sexuality is more complex and difficult to grasp than is usually shown in queer studies and gay history. Existing historiography on the emerging of a modern gay and lesbian identity has failed to study the links between...