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Abstract

This article sketches a retrospective on the different perspectives of sexuality that hasoccurred in Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift from its start in 1980. The aim of the article is to look at and discuss some dominant theories important for feminist research on sexuality and gender, illustrated through a personal selection of artides in Kvt. The development of a research field for feminist sexuality studies has its roots in both feminist re-workings of historical materialism, psychoanalytical theory, post-structural and queer theory. Empirical results presented and discussed in the article shows that sexuality is an aspect of human life were gender differences and power relations between men and women are naturalized and highly dichotomized. Several artides also use discourse analyses to outline notions on gendered sexuality. The differences between feminine and masculine sexuality are in these discourses often located in the functions of the sexual organs, but also in different relations between production and reprodu