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"One summer day in Stockholm in 1747, the carpenter's daughter Lena Cajsa Bohman faces trial for disobedience to her father. Soon, she admits to more serious crimes. A tangle of trafficking of young women is revealed. It develops into a story of power and greed, of secret networks and trade with young women. The protocols reflects women's circumstances in a time when all extra-marital sexuality was forbidden and the word prostitution was not used.In 18th century Stockholm, no distinction was made between prostitution and extramarital sexuality. All sexual intercourse outside of marriage was illegal for both women and men. Through the combination of a variety of material sources, from trial protocols to memoirs and hateful whore poems, we get a versatile picture of the commercial sexuality. The testimony of mamsell Bohman tells about how the trade was organized, who the profiteers, the women and the buying men were, where the trade took place and how women who provided sex för money were looked upon.The overall aim is to investigate how the whore stigma remains over centuries. The stigma is extremely adaptable and constantly accommodates to new cultural and social contexts, laws, values and established truths. It is intertwined with dominant notions of good and evil, of honor and contempt. During the 18th century, the whore stigma was not yet linked to payment for sex. It could affect all women, but was crossed by other hierarchical social orders. Despite a rigid legal stance and a strong social control, the boundaries were more permeable than they would later become. There was a striking discrepancy between law, jurisprudence and the verdict of the mob in 18th century Stockholm - a city where the bourgeois daughter Lena Cajsa was able to admit to relations with the notorious Lovisa von Plat and a number of illegitimate sexual relations, but escape punishment and marry into nobility."

Stockholm --- Stigma --- Sexuality --- Urbanity --- Prostitution --- 18th century

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"One summer day in Stockholm in 1747, the carpenter's daughter Lena Cajsa Bohman faces trial for disobedience to her father. Soon, she admits to more serious crimes. A tangle of trafficking of young women is revealed. It develops into a story of power and greed, of secret networks and trade with young women. The protocols reflects women's circumstances in a time when all extra-marital sexuality was forbidden and the word prostitution was not used.In 18th century Stockholm, no distinction was made between prostitution and extramarital sexuality. All sexual intercourse outside of marriage was illegal for both women and men. Through the combination of a variety of material sources, from trial protocols to memoirs and hateful whore poems, we get a versatile picture of the commercial sexuality. The testimony of mamsell Bohman tells about how the trade was organized, who the profiteers, the women and the buying men were, where the trade took place and how women who provided sex för money were looked upon.The overall aim is to investigate how the whore stigma remains over centuries. The stigma is extremely adaptable and constantly accommodates to new cultural and social contexts, laws, values and established truths. It is intertwined with dominant notions of good and evil, of honor and contempt. During the 18th century, the whore stigma was not yet linked to payment for sex. It could affect all women, but was crossed by other hierarchical social orders. Despite a rigid legal stance and a strong social control, the boundaries were more permeable than they would later become. There was a striking discrepancy between law, jurisprudence and the verdict of the mob in 18th century Stockholm - a city where the bourgeois daughter Lena Cajsa was able to admit to relations with the notorious Lovisa von Plat and a number of illegitimate sexual relations, but escape punishment and marry into nobility."

Biography: general --- Social & cultural history --- Stockholm --- Stigma --- Sexuality --- Urbanity --- Prostitution --- 18th century --- Stockholm --- Stigma --- Sexuality --- Urbanity --- Prostitution --- 18th century

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Die soziologische Befassung mit der Stadt hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die von der Stadtsoziologie in den Blick genommenen Raumbezüge eröffnen wichtige Zugänge zum urbanen Leben der globalisierten (Post-)Moderne. Zur Disposition steht hier die Stadt mit ihren eigenen Spielregeln: ihren ethnischen und geschlechtsbezogenen Trennungslinien und vielfältigen Vergemeinschaftungsprozessen. Wie diese theoretisch einzuordnen sind, diskutiert der Band mit Bezug auf traditionelle und postmoderne Urbanitätskonzeptionen. Gegenwärtig formt insbesondere die Einbindung der Städte in die Globalisierung die urbane Gesellschaft. Die Interdependenz mit dem »globalen Strom« von Menschen, Gütern und Ideen erzeugt eine globalisierte Urbanität, die die Stadtsoziologie vor neue Herausforderungen stellt. »Eckardt blickt auf die Chronologie der Theoretiker, Schulen, Haltungen und Themenfelder. Von Max Weber bis zur postmodernen Urbanität oder zur Stadt als Diskurs spannt er seinen Bogen, ausführlich schließt er mit der Darstellung globalisierter Städte.« Soziologische Revue, 1 (2006)

Sociology --- Introduction. --- Social Geography. --- Sociology. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity. --- Stadtsoziologie; Urbanität; Globalisierung; Stadt; Urban Studies; Sozialgeographie; Soziologie; Einführung; Globalization; Urbanity; Social Geography; Sociology; Introduction

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Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture. Reviewed in: ORLIS, 3 (2014) http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth

Metropolis; Metropolitanism; Media; Urban Space; Theory of Urban Studies; Urbanity; Space; Urban Studies; Sociology --- Media. --- Metropolitanism. --- Sociology. --- Space. --- Theory of Urban Studies. --- Urban Space. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity.

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Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. While Latin American cities have, since their foundation, always included marginal spaces (due, for example, to the segregation of indigenous groups), the massive expansion of informal housing constructed on occupied land in the second half of the twentieth century have brought them into the collective imaginary like never before. Originally viewed as spaces of deprivation, violence, and dangerous alterity, the urban margins were later romanticized as spaces of opportunity and popular empowerment. Instead, this volume analyses the production of new art forms, political organizations and subjectivities emerging from the urban margins in Latin America, neither condemning nor idealizing the effects they produce.

Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- liminality --- marginality --- diaspora --- migration --- urbanity --- population