På väg mot en etnologisk könsmedvetenhet

Introduktion

Abstract

This issue of Kulturella Perspektiv deals with peasant and working class culture, ritual and religion, sexuality, modernity and individualism ⁠— all of them significant fields of research through which ethnologists and anthropologists contribute to the scholarly dialogue. But how is the construction of sex made visible in this dialogue? Research into gender, ie. the cultural and social meanings our biological affiliation both creates and is assigned, is the common denominator in all the present articles.

The challenge to the cultural sciences is to theoretically and empirically deepen insight into how femininity and masculinity are created, in relation to each other and to power mechanisms both on the personal, individual plane and in society as a whole.

The following contributions by social anthropologist Lena Gemzöe, folklorist Karin Lützen and ethnologists Lissie Åström, Christer Eldh and Lena Martinsson each provide material from diverse fields of research for a continued gender-theoretical discussion among ethnologists and anthropologists.