”Nu är du en karl för det du fått en hjelm på din bonde” : protestmaskulinitet i möten med polisen i några av Malmös omoraliska gaturum 1890–1899
Brink Pinto, Andrés LU
(2026)
In Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
46(1-2).
p.111-131
- Abstract
- The decades around the turn of the last century saw a rapid urbanization in Sweden, that also gave rise to new forms of spatial regulation of (im)morality. One example is the regulation of prostitution where women who, according to the police, sold sex were forced to register as prostitutes and to live in police designated streets. In Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden, these streets were clustered in a handful of blocks in the decrepit eastern part of the old city center. On the one hand these spaces were constructed as immoral, on the other hand they were also destinations for pleasure – at least for the customers who bought different forms of pleasure. This article understands these spaces as part of a pleasurescape, i.e. a part... (More)
- The decades around the turn of the last century saw a rapid urbanization in Sweden, that also gave rise to new forms of spatial regulation of (im)morality. One example is the regulation of prostitution where women who, according to the police, sold sex were forced to register as prostitutes and to live in police designated streets. In Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden, these streets were clustered in a handful of blocks in the decrepit eastern part of the old city center. On the one hand these spaces were constructed as immoral, on the other hand they were also destinations for pleasure – at least for the customers who bought different forms of pleasure. This article understands these spaces as part of a pleasurescape, i.e. a part of the urban space where pleasure in different forms – some times illegal and often considered immoral – was available, and seeks to analyze how this pleasurescape interacted with unruly forms of working-class masculinity, focusing on instances where men came into conflict with the police. My results show that some excessive forms of unruly masculinity were policed to some extent, and that the policing often led to verbal or violent conflict with the police. Further, I argue that these conflicts also should be understood as parts of the doing of a protest masculinity and thus that the police served as an important counterpart and target that made these performances possible. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Under den snabba urbaniseringen kring sekelskiftet 1900 införde de flesta större svenska städer så kallad reglementerad prostitution. Reglementeringen innebar att kvinnor som av polisen bedömdes sälja sex tvingades registrera sig som prostituerade och bland annat tvingades att bo och verka på av polisen anvisade gator. I Malmö låg dessa gator, med ett undantag, i den östra delen av den äldre bebyggelsen innanför kanalen. I denna artikel analyserar jag hur arbetarklassmän agerade i möten med polisen i dessa gaturum. Min undersökning visar att görande av mer utlevande former för maskulinitet kunde leda till konflikter med polisen som motpart. Vidar argumenterar studien för att konflikterna bör förstås som del av ett görande av en... (More)
- Under den snabba urbaniseringen kring sekelskiftet 1900 införde de flesta större svenska städer så kallad reglementerad prostitution. Reglementeringen innebar att kvinnor som av polisen bedömdes sälja sex tvingades registrera sig som prostituerade och bland annat tvingades att bo och verka på av polisen anvisade gator. I Malmö låg dessa gator, med ett undantag, i den östra delen av den äldre bebyggelsen innanför kanalen. I denna artikel analyserar jag hur arbetarklassmän agerade i möten med polisen i dessa gaturum. Min undersökning visar att görande av mer utlevande former för maskulinitet kunde leda till konflikter med polisen som motpart. Vidar argumenterar studien för att konflikterna bör förstås som del av ett görande av en protestmaskulinitet i relation till det omoraliska urbana rummet. (Less)
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- Brink Pinto, Andrés
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2026-06
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Njutningslandskap, protestmaskulinitet, Malmö, ordningspolis, sent 1800-tal, Pleasurescapes, protest masculinity, Malmö, order policing, late 19th century
- in
- Tidskrift för genusvetenskap
- volume
- 46
- issue
- 1-2
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Tidskrift för genusvetenskap, Karlstads universitet
- ISSN
- 2001-1377
- DOI
- 10.55870/tgv.v46i1-2.44728
- project
- Att leva i stadens omoraliska rum - förnimmade gaturum och dess materialitet i Malmö ca. 1890-1910
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 5eb50e5b-0c6b-4b65-b21f-359b0999d5ad
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