Gunlög Fur – författare

Äktenskapet, "instiftat till samhällets bestånd" som det heter i vigselformuläret, är en institution under kontinuerlig förändring. Vägen är lång från 1600-talets bondehushåll, arbetsenheter med tydlig arbetsfördelning, till dagens regnbågsfamiljer och jämställdhetsdiskurser. Men det är inte ens hundra år sedan gifta kvinnor myndighetsförklarades i de nordiska länderna. Fördömandet av utomäktenskaplig sexualitet och accepterandet av inomäktenskaplig kvinnomisshandel har också levt kvar in i vår tid. I denna antologi gör historiker, genusvetare, socialantropologer och religionsvetare från Sverige, Danmark och Norge nedslag i 400 års familje- och reproduktionshistoria.

A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.In Delaware society at the beginning of this period, to be a woman meant to engage in the activities performed by women, including diplomacy, rather than to be defined by biological sex. Among the Delaware, being a "woman" was therefore a self-identification, employed by both women and men, that reflected the complementary roles of both sexes within Delaware society. For these reasons, the Delaware were known among Europeans and other Native American groups as "a nation of women."Decades of interaction with these other cultures gradually eroded the positive connotations of being a nation of women as well as the importance of actual women in Delaware society. In Anglo-Indian politics, being depicted as a woman suggested weakness and evil. Exposed to such thinking, Delaware men struggled successfully to assume the formal speaking roles and political authority that women once held. To salvage some sense of gender complementarity in Delaware society, men and women redrew the lines of their duties more rigidly. As the era came to a close, even as some Delaware engaged in a renewal of Delaware identity as a masculine nation, others rejected involvement in Christian networks that threatened to disturb the already precarious gender balance in their social relations.Drawing on all available European accounts, including those in Swedish, German, and English, Fur establishes the centrality of gender in Delaware life and, in doing so, argues for a new understanding of how different notions of gender influenced all interactions in colonial North America.

A Nation of Women chronicles changing ideas of gender and identity among the Delaware Indians from the mid-seventeenth through the eighteenth century, as they encountered various waves of migrating peoples in their homelands along the eastern coast of North America.In Delaware society at the beginning of this period, to be a woman meant to engage in the activities performed by women, including diplomacy, rather than to be defined by biological sex. Among the Delaware, being a "woman" was therefore a self-identification, employed by both women and men, that reflected the complementary roles of both sexes within Delaware society. For these reasons, the Delaware were known among Europeans and other Native American groups as "a nation of women."Decades of interaction with these other cultures gradually eroded the positive connotations of being a nation of women as well as the importance of actual women in Delaware society. In Anglo-Indian politics, being depicted as a woman suggested weakness and evil. Exposed to such thinking, Delaware men struggled successfully to assume the formal speaking roles and political authority that women once held. To salvage some sense of gender complementarity in Delaware society, men and women redrew the lines of their duties more rigidly. As the era came to a close, even as some Delaware engaged in a renewal of Delaware identity as a masculine nation, others rejected involvement in Christian networks that threatened to disturb the already precarious gender balance in their social relations.Drawing on all available European accounts, including those in Swedish, German, and English, Fur establishes the centrality of gender in Delaware life and, in doing so, argues for a new understanding of how different notions of gender influenced all interactions in colonial North America.

Den som sätter sig att läsa Resor i tid och rum får förbereda sig på hisnande färder över vidsträckta fält: från finstämda parisiska bilddikter till en monty pythonsk spänningsroman, från Fridegårds trälar till rollspelet Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, från den sömniga småstaden Nässjö till igbo-byar i östra Nigeria. Vi möter resande konst, barn och språk. Litteraturläsande som en egen resa, där läsfärdighet är den nödvändiga biljetten, behandlas från olika håll: i skolan, i samtalet, i läsarens inre. Vi får läsa om indianer och indier, perser och greker och mycket, mycket mer. Ett försök att fånga litteraturvetaren Margareta Peterssons många intresseområden indoengelsk roman, postkolonial litteratur, global litteraturhistorieskrivning samt litteraturdidaktisk forskning kan inte sluta på annat sätt än med en omfångsrik antologi, med trettio nyskrivna och intressanta artiklar författade av kolleger från lärosäten runt hela landet. Förhoppningen är att läsaren möts av en och annan oväntad koppling som sprider nytt ljus över det som för professor Petersson sedan länge varit känt.