This article showcases how a feminist perspective provides novel insights into the relations between military heritage/history and national security politics. We argue that analysing how gender and sexualities operate at military heritage sites reveals how these operations dis/encourage particular understandings of security and limit the range of acceptable national protection policies. Two recent initiatives to preserve the military heritage of the Cold War period in Sweden are examined: the Cold War exhibits at Air Force Museum in Linköping and the redevelopment of a formerly sealed off military compound at Bungenäs, where bunkers have been remade into exclusive summer homes. By combining feminist international relations and critical heritage studies, we unpack the material, affective and embodied underpinnings of security produced at military heritage sites. A key conclusion is that the way heritagization incorporates the ‘naturalness’ of the gender binary and heterosexuality makes conceptualizing security without territory, or territory without military protection, inaccessible. The gendering of emotions and architectural and spatial arrangements supports historical narratives that privilege masculine protection and reinforce a taken-for-granted nativist community. A feminist analysis of military heritage highlights how gender and sexualities restrict security imaginaries; that is, understandings of what is conceivable as security.

本文展示了女权主义者的观点如何为军事遗产/历史与国家安全政治之间的关系提供了新颖的见解。我们认为，分析军事遗产遗址中的性别和性行为是如何揭示这些行为如何破坏/鼓励对安全的特定理解并限制可接受的国家保护政策的范围。考察了最近两项保护瑞典冷战时期军事遗产的举措：冷战在林雪平空军博物馆的展品以及在邦格纳斯（Bungenäs）以前被封锁的军事大院的重建，这里的掩体已被改建为独家的避暑别墅。通过结合女权主义的国际关系和重要的遗产研究，我们整理了资料，军事遗产所在地产生的情感的和体现的安全基础。一个关键结论是，遗传化结合了性别二元性和异性恋的“自然”方式，使得无法概念化没有领土或没有军事保护的领土的安全性。情感的性别化以及建筑和空间的安排支持了历史叙事，这些叙事赋予男性保护以特权并加强了一个理所当然的本土主义者社区。女权主义对军事遗产的分析强调了性别和性行为如何限制安全假想。也就是说，对可能的理解 或没有军事保护的地区，无法进入。情感的性别化以及建筑和空间的安排支持了历史叙事，这些叙事赋予男性保护以特权并加强了一个理所当然的本土主义者社区。女权主义对军事遗产的分析强调了性别和性行为如何限制安全假想。也就是说，对可能的理解 或没有军事保护的地区，无法进入。情感的性别化以及建筑和空间的安排支持了历史叙事，这些叙事赋予男性保护以特权并加强了一个理所当然的本土主义者社区。女权主义对军事遗产的分析强调了性别和性行为如何限制安全假想。也就是说，对可能的理解作为安全。