G. Broberg’s scientific contributions

... I had studied Swedish welfare law, being only vaguely conscious of the fact thatalthough no references were made to this in Law School -Swedish authorities, up until the 1970s, enforced non-consensual sterilization of 'legally incapable' and 'deviant' persons, including people of Roma heritage, people with cognitive disabilities, and 'promiscuous' persons. 55 The Swedish welfare law and practice I considered a safety net for myselffor all persons marginalizedwas built on an official Swedish welfare state tradition of 'negative eugenics' 'improving' the 'quality' of the 'human material'. 56 Until 2013, sterilization was mandatory for trans people undergoing gender-transformative medical treatment in Sweden. ...

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On gardens of the Anthropocene: gendered violence, colonial legal enclosures, and feminist posthuman kinship

... Interventions and legislation to increase nativity amongst healthy and well-adjusted citizensand reduce or even prevent reproduction among those not considered as suchwere high on the political agenda. On legal grounds, certain people were forced to sterilise, if they, for example, were considered mentally ill, had an anti-social lifestyle or for other reasons were considered to have the potential to be unsuitable parents (Broberg & Tydén, 1996;Porter, 1999). ...

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Othering in discursive constructions of Swedish national identity, 1870-1940 Karin Idevall Hagren

... Zarembas artikelserie 16 i Dagens nyheter 1997, där omfattningen av steriliseringarna i Sverige förklarades som en konsekvens av den svenska välfärdens kollektivistiska ideal, väckte internationell uppmärksamhet (Broberg & Tydén 1999). Det anges som ett av skälen till att den svenska steriliseringspolitiken behandlades i ett temanummer av Scandinavian Journal of History 1999. ...

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Normalitetens gränser : En studie om 1900-talets mentalhygieniska diskurser

... En Suède, les visées eugéniques culminent dans les années 1940 où, dans près de 85% des cas, ce motif a la plus grosse part. Vers 1955, en revanche, le renversement de la tendance est complet: 85 à 90% des actes sont alors décidés pour raison médicale, même si certaines indications eugéniques sont parfois masquées sous des motifs médicaux [13] . Dès 1947, le ministère cesse d'enjoindre aux hospices de stériliser les handicapés mentaux (sté-rilisations qui demeureront toutefois assez fréquentes jusque dans les années 1960), et de plus en plus d'exceptions seront faites à la loi de 1938 qui obligeait les femmes à accepter la stérilisation après un avortement eugénique. ...

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Scandinavian eugenics: Nordic historians provide new approaches