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I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Tony Chapman: Gender and Domestic Life – changing practices in Families and Households. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Cas Wouters: Sex and Manners. Female Emancipation in the West 1890-2000. London: Sage 2004.Anette Faye Jacobsen: Husbondret. Rettighedskulturer i Danmark 1750-1920. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2008.Paula Mulinari: Maktens fantasier & servicearbetets praktik. Linköpings Studies in Art and Science No 414, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för Tema, 2007.

I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Karin Garde: Køn, psykisk sygdom og behandling.Katarina Leppänen: Rethinking Civilization in a European Feminist Context: History, Nature, Women in Elin Wägner's Väckerklocka.Helen Krag: Mangfoldighed, Magt og Minoriteter. Introduktion til minoritetsforskningens teorier.Anette Borchorst og Ann-Dorte Christensen (red): Kønsrefleksioner om magt og mangfoldighed.Steen Baagøe Nielsen: Mænd og dagsinstitutionsarbejdets modernisering. Teoretiske, historiske og etnografiske perspektiver på sammenhænge mellem køn, pædagogisk arbejde og organisering i dagsinstitutioner.Inger-Lise Hjordt-Vetlesen: En rullende saga. Studier i Marie Bregendahls fortællinger.

This article discusses the status of the concept of hegemonic masculinity in research on men and boys in Sweden, and how it has been used and developed. Sweden has a relatively long history of public debate, research, and policy intervention in gender issues and gender equality. This has meant, in sheer quantitative terms, a relatively sizeable corpus of work on men, masculinities, and gender relations. There is also a rather wide diversity of approaches, theoretically and empirically, to the analysis of men and masculinities. The Swedish national context and gender equality project is outlined. This is followed by discussion of three broad phases in studies on men and masculinities in Sweden: the 1960s and 1970s before the formulation of the concept of hegemonic masculinity; the 1980s and 1990s when the concept was important for a generation of researchers developing studies in more depth; and the 2000s with a younger generation committed to a variety of feminist and gender critiques other than those associated with hegemonic masculinity. The following sections focus specifically on how the concept of hegemonic masculinity has been used, adapted, and indeed not used, in particular areas of study: boys and young men in family and education; violence; and health. The article concludes with review of how hegemonic masculinity has been used in Swedish contexts, as: gender stereotype, often out of the context of legitimation of patriarchal relations; "Other" than dominant, white middle-class "Swedish," equated with outmoded, nonmodern, working-class, failing boy, or minority ethnic masculinities; a new masculinity concept and practice, incorporating some degree of gender equality; and reconceptualized and problematized as a modern, heteronormative, and subject-centered concept.