On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:59 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> From Laura Agustin. I yammered about her book here, Sex at the Margins, and
> Doug had her on his radio program shortly after the book came out:
>
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>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've lived in southern Sweden for the past year, a short ride across water
> from Copenhagen, and now feel I can begin to analyse what Swedish (and
> Nordic) gender-equality policies are about. I also want to maintain my
> sanity whilst watching highly biased trafficking information reproduce
> itself in Sweden, which is a product, of course, of ideas about prostitution
> and inequality. So I have opened up a column on The Local, a Swedish media
> site in English, called The Other Swedish Model. The introductory post is:
>
> The pleasures of dissent: Not?
> http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/theotherswedishmodel/2009/10/28/the-pleasures-of-dissent-not/
>
> At a drinks reception not long ago I referred nonchalantly to the fact
> that Sweden is supposedly the world's most gender-equal state. A
> shiver was felt; eyes rolled. Had I said supposedly? Was I actually
> questioning Sweden's version of Gender Equality, jämställdhet? That, it
> seems, is practically taboo in Sweden....
>
> Please send on to interested people.
>
> Best wishes, Laura
>
>
> Laura María Agustín
> Border Thinking: http://www.nodo50.org/Laura_Agustin
>
> Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN/1842778609/?tag=lauragus-20
>
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