Yvonne Svanström, is an associate professor and head of the Department of Economic History

Economic history

Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...

 at Stockholm University

Stockholm University

Stockholm University is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. It has over 28,000 students at four faculties, making it one of the largest universities in Scandinavia. The institution is also frequently regarded as one of the top 100 universities in the world...

.

Career

She earned her PhD in 2000, with a dissertation ("Policing Public Women. The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm") on prostitution in the 19th century.
An expanded and popularized version of her thesis was published in Swedish as "Offentliga kvinnor. Prostitution I Sverige 1812-1918".
Her subsequent work has examined Swedish prostitution policy through to the contemporary era, and comparisons with other European policy. Svanström's work is the main source of information on the history of prostitution in Sweden

Prostitution in Sweden

The laws on prostitution in Sweden make it illegal to buy sexual services, but not to sell them. Pimping, procuring and operating a brothel are also illegal...

.

Research projects

• To trade in Sex: Regulation, Liberalization or Criminalization? Prostitution Politics in Sweden 1930-2000. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Books

• Policing Public Women. The Regulation of Prostitution in Stockholm 1812-1880. PhD Thesis. Stockholm: Atlas Akademi 2000. ISBN 9189044754.

Review: Holloway P. Regulation and the Nation: Comparative Perspectives on Prostitution and Public Policy. Journal of Women's History, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 202-211

Review: Karlsson G. Övervakning av offentliga kvinnor i Stockholm. Historisk Tidskrift 123:3 (2003) 453-60

• Offentliga kvinnor. Prostitution I Sverige 1812-1918, Ordfront förlag 2006. ISBN 9170371881.

Review: Ella Andrén. Dagensbok Dec 12 2008

http://www.dn.se/dnbok/bokrecensioner/om-kvinnor-som-smittarReview: Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Ekman

Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist.Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels but later went on to psychological and social themes...

 ”Om kvinnor som smittar”]. Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter

is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...

 29 August 2006.

• Femininiteter, maskuliniteter och kriminalitet, Studentlitteratur AB 2003. ISBN 914403055X.
• Sedligt, renligt, lagligt : prostitution i Norden 1880-1940, Makadam förlag 2007. ISBN 9170610401.
• ”En självklar efterfrågan? Om torskar och sexköpare under hundra år” i Yvonne Svanström och Kjell Östberg (ed.), Än män då? Om kön och feminism i Sverige under 150 år, Atlas Akademi, Stockholm, 2004

Book chapters

• The Main Source of Syphilis is Prostitution : Fallen Women and Prostitutes in Medical Discourse 1812-1875. The Case of Stockholm, in Sex, State and Society : Comparative Perspectives on the History of Sexuality. Almqvist & Wiksell, Umeå 2000. pp. 239-268. 91-7191-871-X
• “Offentliga Kvinnor i Offentliga Rum: Prostitutionens Reglementering i 1800–talets Stockholm (Public Women in Public Spaces: Regulating Prostitution in the 1800s in Stockholm),” in Christina Florin and Lars Kvarnstrom, eds., Kvinnor på gransen till medborgarskap: Genus, politik och offentlighet, 1800–1950, Stockholm: Atlas Akademi, 2001
• “Criminalising the John: A Swedish Gender Model?,” in Joyce Outshoorn, ed., The Politics of Prostitution: Women’s Movements, Democratic States and the Globalisation of Sex Commerce, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Prostitution in Sweden: Debates and policies 1980-2004, in Gangoli G, Westmarland N. International Approaches to Prostitution. The Policy Press, London 2006, pp. 67ff
• ”Ellen Bergman och Federationen: Kvinnoemancipation och sedlighet 1880-1910” i Anna Jansdotter och Yvonne Svanström (red.) Sedligt, renligt, lagligt: Prostitution i Norden 1880-1940, Göteborg; Stockholm: Makadam förlag, 2007
• ”Kampen i katedern – att undervisa i genushistoria” i Maria Sjöberg och Yvonne Svanström (red.) Att göra historia – vänbok till Christina Florin (Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2008)
• 'Handel med kvinnor: debatten i Sverige och Nederlanderna om prostitution och trafficking', in C. Florin and C. Bergqvist (eds.) Framtiden i samtiden: Könsrelationer i förändring i Sverige och omvärlden. Institutet för framtidsstudier. Sverige. 2004. pp. 290-323

Journal articles

• “Through the Prism of Prostitution: Conceptions of Women and Sexuality in Sweden at Two Fins-de-Siècle,” Nordic Journal of Women’s Studies, 2005 (13): 48-58
• “Prostitution as Vagrancy: Sweden 1923-1964,” Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 2006 (7): 142-163
• Holgersson, C. and Svanström, Y. (2007) ‘Sex clubs and escorts – on the consequences of sexual entertaining in organisations’ Gender, Work & Organization Special issue: Sexual spaces.

Edited collections

• Anna Jansdotter, Yvonne Svanström (ed.), Sedligt, renligt, lagligt. Prostitution i Norden 1880-1940, Makadam, 2007
• Svanström, Yvonne. Östberg, Kjell (ed.) Än män då? Kön och feminism i Sverige under 150 år ft. Atlas Akademi 2004. 277 sid. ISBN 9173891282.
• Maria Sjöberg och Yvonne Svanström (ed.) Att göra historia – vänbok till Christina Florin (Stockholm, Institutet för framtidsstudier, 2008)

Miscellaneous

• Florinn C, Manns U, Svanström Y, Östberg K, Isaksson E. Feminism without feminists? Gender and State Politics in Sweden, 1850-2000. A Round-Table Discussion

External links

• Libris: Yvonne Svanström
• Official website - University of Stockholm
• Departmental website
• Staten har fungerat som hallick: Historikern Yvonne Svanström har studerat prostitutionen på 1800-talet. Aftonbladet
  Aftonbladet
  Aftonbladet is a Swedish tabloid founded by Lars Johan Hierta in 1830 during the modernization of Sweden. It is one of the larger daily newspapers in the Nordic countries. Aftonbladet is owned by the Swedish Trade Union Confederation and Norwegian media group Schibsted, and its editorial page...
  
  July 18 2001
• List of publications at National Library of Sweden