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Bland Bögar, Män och Fjollor: om heteronormativ reproduktion av begär och genus i diskurs och praktik inom ”bögvärlden”

Ideström, Harald LU (2015) GNVK01 20151
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract (Swedish)
This bachelor’s thesis has focuses on the internal hierarchies of gender within the gay, male, community. Based on interviews with young gay men in Sweden, I explore the way that we (for I situate myself in the studied field) feel, experience and relate to concepts of masculinity, femininity and desire. From this I conclude that the position of negotiation with hegemonic masculinity is one of precariousness. To perform the hegemonic is to restrain and shed parts of one’s subject and feeling of self, but to embrace the effeminate “gayness” is also perilous for it questions the order of normative gender and it means a loss of gender-based power in a patriarchal society – and also the sense of being male/manly. A second point of my... (More)
This bachelor’s thesis has focuses on the internal hierarchies of gender within the gay, male, community. Based on interviews with young gay men in Sweden, I explore the way that we (for I situate myself in the studied field) feel, experience and relate to concepts of masculinity, femininity and desire. From this I conclude that the position of negotiation with hegemonic masculinity is one of precariousness. To perform the hegemonic is to restrain and shed parts of one’s subject and feeling of self, but to embrace the effeminate “gayness” is also perilous for it questions the order of normative gender and it means a loss of gender-based power in a patriarchal society – and also the sense of being male/manly. A second point of my conclusions is that desire is based on a dichotomous and heterocentric understanding of desire. Sexual acts, and the gendered connotations thereof, are based on a discourse of idealised heterosexuality. While “bottoms” are denoted as effeminate, both socially and morphologically, their masculine counterparts, “tops”, own a symbolic capital of heterosexualised and “true” masculinity.
I draw on Judith Butlers’ queer theory, a gendered understanding on Pierre Bourdieus capital theory, and R.W. Connells theorisation of masculinity. (Less)
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author
Ideström, Harald LU
supervisor
organization
course
GNVK01 20151
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
queer masculinity, masculinity as capital, top, bottom, sissyphobia, gay men
language
Swedish
id
5469191
date added to LUP
2015-06-17 17:21:02
date last changed
2015-06-18 14:04:26
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  abstract     = {{This bachelor’s thesis has focuses on the internal hierarchies of gender within the gay, male, community. Based on interviews with young gay men in Sweden, I explore the way that we (for I situate myself in the studied field) feel, experience and relate to concepts of masculinity, femininity and desire. From this I conclude that the position of negotiation with hegemonic masculinity is one of precariousness. To perform the hegemonic is to restrain and shed parts of one’s subject and feeling of self, but to embrace the effeminate “gayness” is also perilous for it questions the order of normative gender and it means a loss of gender-based power in a patriarchal society – and also the sense of being male/manly. A second point of my conclusions is that desire is based on a dichotomous and heterocentric understanding of desire. Sexual acts, and the gendered connotations thereof, are based on a discourse of idealised heterosexuality. While “bottoms” are denoted as effeminate, both socially and morphologically, their masculine counterparts, “tops”, own a symbolic capital of heterosexualised and “true” masculinity.
I draw on Judith Butlers’ queer theory, a gendered understanding on Pierre Bourdieus capital theory, and R.W. Connells theorisation of masculinity.}},
  author       = {{Ideström, Harald}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Bland Bögar, Män och Fjollor: om heteronormativ reproduktion av begär och genus i diskurs och praktik inom ”bögvärlden”}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}