Rikke Andreassen

Historikeren Rikke Andreassen og forfatteren Merete Pryds Helle giver liv til en særlig gruppe kvinder, hvis tilværelser og indflydelse hidtil er blevet overset i historien. Nogle smed korsettet, nogle fik deres elskerindes navn tatoveret, og nogle revolutionerede skolevæsenet. Andre levede hårde liv på bunden af samfundet som tvungne sexarbejdere – eller mageligt i toppen som ansete kunsthåndværkere. De var alle oprørere på hver deres måde, men fælles for kvinderne var, at de levede omkring år 1900 og var i forhold med andre kvinder. Denne bog beskriver disse glemte kvinder i historien. Bogens fundament er et banebrydende stykke forskning af historiker og professor Rikke Andreassen. Hun har nægtet at acceptere manglen på homoseksuelle kvinder i danmarkshistorien, og gennem breve, dagbøger, billeder, kontaktannoncer og læge og politijournaler fremkalder hun en lang række kvindeskæbner, der gør os klogere på både kønnenes og Danmarks historie. Foruden denne fængende historiske beretning løber der et fiktionsspor i bogen, forfattet af vinder af De Gyldne Laurbær Merete Pryds Helle, som sender en af virkelighedens personer på en sansemættet rejse til de steder, hvor homoseksuelle kvinder krydsede veje i datidens Danmark – fra dansesaloner over fotoateliers til hospitaler. Kort sagt en spillevende bog, der vil ændre det historiske blik på kvinder og deres kærlighedsliv.

Vores dagligdag er blevet digital. Digitale platforme og interaktioner former medborgerskab, politisk deltagelse, samtaler med venner og familie, kærlighedsliv og kommunikation med offentlige myndigheder. Digitaliseringen tilbyder nye måder at interagere på i privatlivet, i offentligheden og i arbejdslivet.Dagligdagens digitaliseringer udfoldes i bogen inden for tre temaer: brugere, platforme og selvfremstillinger. De fleste digitaliseringer har til hensigt at gøre hverdagslivet nemmere for brugerne, men i virkeligheden fører de ofte til frustration og afmagt. Platforme omformer viden om vores liv til data, og påvirker derved personlige praksisser gennem en række automatiseringsprocesser. Selvfremstillinger er centrale i individers brug af digitale medier, mens de samtidig er omdrejningspunkt for virksomheders strategiske forsøg på at navigere på meningernes markedsplads.DIGITALE LIV belyser, hvordan digitaliseringer påvirker vores liv gennem analyser af shitstorms, dating, gaming, influencers, e-boks, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, algoritmer, velgørenhed, platformsøkonomi mv.Bogen er egnet til undervisning i medievidenskab, datalogi, informatik, interaktionsdesign, teknologistudier og kommunikation på universiteter og professionshøjskoler, men kan læses af alle, der interesser sig for den digitalisering, der i stigende grad præger vores samfund og daglige liv.

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo, where different ’villages’, constructed in the middle of the zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ’daily lives’ for thousands of curious Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities. Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material, the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race, science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination with ’the exotic’, and contemporary language and popular culture. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the specific political and cultural landscapes of the Nordic countries, Affectivity and Race draws on a variety of sources, including television programmes, news media, fictional literature, interviews, ethnographic observations, teaching curricula and policy documents, to explore the ways in which ideas about affectivity and emotion afford new insights into the experience of racial difference and the unfolding of political discourses on race in various social spheres. Organised around the themes of the politicisation of race through affect, the way that race produces affect and the affective experience of race, this interdisciplinary collection sheds light on the role of feelings in the formation of subjectivities, how race and whiteness are affectively circulated in public life and the ways in which emotions contribute to regimes of inclusion and exclusion. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, with interests in sociology, anthropology, media, literary and cultural studies, race and ethnicity, and Nordic studies.

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new families challenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family.

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of online media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of single women and lesbian couples reproducing by using donor sperm. It explores how they connect with each other online, develop intimate digital communities and, most importantly, locate their children’s hitherto unknown biological half-siblings, throughout the world. The author discusses how these new families - consisting of only mothers - engage in extended families involving large numbers of ‘donor siblings’. The new families challenge previous understandings of kinship, and provide illustrations of how norms of gender, sexuality and family are challenged, negotiated and maintained in contemporary times. A crucial study of contemporary formations of family, gender and race, Mediated Kinship discusses the racial aspects of the world’s largest sperm bank exporting Danish sperm (termed ‘Viking sperm’), and explores the narratives of whiteness and imagined racial superiority that circulate among mothers, as well as the racialisations accompanying commercial online sperm sales. By analysing contemporary families of donor-conceived children in the context of legislation, reproduction technologies and online media, the book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in race and ethnicity, whiteness, gender, sexuality, kinship and the sociology of the family.

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on the everyday practices and macro-politics of race and gender in multi-ethnic societies. With attention to the specific political and cultural landscapes of the Nordic countries, Affectivity and Race draws on a variety of sources, including television programmes, news media, fictional literature, interviews, ethnographic observations, teaching curricula and policy documents, to explore the ways in which ideas about affectivity and emotion afford new insights into the experience of racial difference and the unfolding of political discourses on race in various social spheres. Organised around the themes of the politicisation of race through affect, the way that race produces affect and the affective experience of race, this interdisciplinary collection sheds light on the role of feelings in the formation of subjectivities, how race and whiteness are affectively circulated in public life and the ways in which emotions contribute to regimes of inclusion and exclusion. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, with interests in sociology, anthropology, media, literary and cultural studies, race and ethnicity, and Nordic studies.

From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions took place in Copenhagen Zoo, where different ’villages’, constructed in the middle of the zoo, hosted men, women and children, who sometimes stayed for months, performing their ’daily lives’ for thousands of curious Danes. This book draws on unique archival material newly discovered in Copenhagen, including photographs, documentary evidence and newspaper articles, to offer new insights and perspectives on the exhibitions both in Copenhagen and in other European cities. Employing post-colonial and feminist approaches to the material, the author sheds fresh light on the staging of exhibitions, the daily life of the exhibitees, the wider connections between shows across Europe and the thinking of the time on matters of race, science, gender and sexuality. A window onto contemporary racial understandings, Human Exhibitions presents interviews with the descendants of displayed people, connecting the attitudes and science of the past with both our (continued) modern fascination with ’the exotic’, and contemporary language and popular culture. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of sociology, anthropology and history working in the areas of gender and sexuality, race, whiteness and post-colonialism.