American Studies in Scandinavia is a biannual publication published by the Nordic Association for American Studies. The aim of the association is to encourage and promote serious study of the United States and its civilisation in the five Nordic countries. The journal is interdisciplinary drawing upon such fields as geography, history, linguistics, literature, political science, social anthropology and sociology.

Contents:

Editor's Note

Alf Tomas Tønnessen, Introduction: American Conservatism, the Republican Right, and Post-War U.S. Political History

Niels Bjerre-Poulsen, Standing Athwart History, Yelling Stop: The Emergence of American Movement Conservatism, 1945-1965

Tom Packer, Conservatives Look Abroad: Jesse Helms and the Foreign Policy of the U.S. Conservative Movement

Hilde Løvdal Stephens, Parenting and Politics: The Personal and the Political in the Evangelical Family Values

Leif Magne Lervik, Guns on Campus: Surveying a Rugged Post-Heller/McDonald Landscape

Pirjo Ahokas, Challenging the Color-Blind American Dream: Transnational Adoption in A Gesture Life, The Love Wife, and Digging to America

Kristina Fjelkestam, Alcott, Little Women, and the Popular Sublime