Under det rosa täcket
Encyclopedia
Under det rosa täcket is a Swedish
feminist
book written by Nina Björk
, first published in 1996. The book made a great impact on the Swedish feminist field of the 1990s and is notable for introducing Butlerian
queer theory
to Sweden.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
book written by Nina Björk
Nina Björk
Nina Björk is a Swedish feminist, author and journalist. She is most well known for Under det rosa täcket , a feminist book written in 1996....
, first published in 1996. The book made a great impact on the Swedish feminist field of the 1990s and is notable for introducing Butlerian
Judith Butler
Judith Butler is an American post-structuralist philosopher, who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature departments at the University of California, Berkeley.Butler received her Ph.D...
queer theory
Queer theory
Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of LGBT studies and feminist studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself...
to Sweden.