![]() ![]() Third, in the book's discussion of the paradigm of sodomy, the author explores in tremendous detail the other major component of the paradigm, sex acts with animals. ![]() ![]() Second, it does this for Sweden, a country about which there is amazingly little English-language literature with regards to homosexuality, despite the country's reputation for sexual tolerance. First, it provides a detailed account of the shift from an understanding of same-sex acts based on the ancient notion of sodomy to one organized around the more modern concept of homosexuality moreover, it compares how this shift happened in both rural and urban areas, giving much evidence that the more modern understanding began in the cities and penetrated slowly afterwards into the countryside. Jens Rydstrm's Sinners and Citizens is of major interest for three reasons. Reviewed by Clayton Whisnant (Department of History, Wofford College)įrom Sodomy to Homosexuality: Changing Paradigms in Sweden, 1880-1950 Sinners and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden, 1880-1950.Ĭhicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ![]()
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