Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction. Humanity’s Asocial Sociability and the Swedish Paradox ix
5. Part 1: Anatomy of a Nation
6. 1. The People of Nifelheim 1
7. 2. Statist Individualism 16
8. 3. The Swedish Theory of Love 33
9. Part 2: Sweden Imagined
10. 4. Poverty and Progress 53
11. 5. Love and Independence 73
12. 6. Supermen and Other People 92
13. 7. A Bounded Community 116
14. 8. Sweden for the Swedes! 134
15. Part 3: Sweden Realized
16. 9. Nationalizing the Child 161
17. 10. Asocial, Unnatural, Inhuman 183
18. 11. Just a Housewife 212
19. 12. Competing Visions of Community 237
20. 13. A Lutheran Modernity? 262
21. Coda: Prospects for Swedish Love 295
22. Acknowledgments 317
23. Notes 319
24. Bibliography 343
25. Index 373