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Hjärta till hjärta: fetischisters livsvärldar, gemenskaper och självförståelser

Larsson, Oskar LU and Saarela, Noah (2018) GNVK02 20181
Department of Gender Studies
Abstract
Apart from the previous writings about fetishism within a paraphilic discourse in the medical and psychology fields, fetishism, from an individual perspective, is a rather under-studied field and somewhat of a blind spot in the adjoining field of BDSM-studies in both a Swedish and international context. Fetishism can be defined as the ability of feeling a sense of satisfaction when handling or being near a certain object or when being in a specific situation.

This ethnographic bachelor thesis paints a wideranging picture of the experiences of selfdefined fetishists with a focus on sexual, social and political dimensions through semistructured interviews - based on a poststructural theoretical framework. We analyse our participants... (More)
Apart from the previous writings about fetishism within a paraphilic discourse in the medical and psychology fields, fetishism, from an individual perspective, is a rather under-studied field and somewhat of a blind spot in the adjoining field of BDSM-studies in both a Swedish and international context. Fetishism can be defined as the ability of feeling a sense of satisfaction when handling or being near a certain object or when being in a specific situation.

This ethnographic bachelor thesis paints a wideranging picture of the experiences of selfdefined fetishists with a focus on sexual, social and political dimensions through semistructured interviews - based on a poststructural theoretical framework. We analyse our participants understandings of fetishism as a term, how fetishism relates to sexual orientation and how its negotiated in relation to conventional understandings of sexuality. We examine how a sense of belonging with other fetishists and a bigger 'kink-community' is considered by the participants’ and how different rooms can be considered as safe spaces, or as excluding due to hegemonic ideals.

We conclude that fetishism should not be considered a clear construction but negotiated through historic and contemporary discourses, and that fetishism can deconstruct hegemonic notions of sexuality. (Less)
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author
Larsson, Oskar LU and Saarela, Noah
supervisor
organization
course
GNVK02 20181
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Fetishism, Sexuality, BDSM, Gender studies, Ethnography, Fetischism, Sexualitet, Genusvetenskap, Etnografi
language
Swedish
id
8943782
date added to LUP
2018-06-25 14:25:28
date last changed
2019-02-27 15:05:40
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  abstract     = {{Apart from the previous writings about fetishism within a paraphilic discourse in the medical and psychology fields, fetishism, from an individual perspective, is a rather under-studied field and somewhat of a blind spot in the adjoining field of BDSM-studies in both a Swedish and international context. Fetishism can be defined as the ability of feeling a sense of satisfaction when handling or being near a certain object or when being in a specific situation.

This ethnographic bachelor thesis paints a wideranging picture of the experiences of selfdefined fetishists with a focus on sexual, social and political dimensions through semistructured interviews - based on a poststructural theoretical framework. We analyse our participants understandings of fetishism as a term, how fetishism relates to sexual orientation and how its negotiated in relation to conventional understandings of sexuality. We examine how a sense of belonging with other fetishists and a bigger 'kink-community' is considered by the participants’ and how different rooms can be considered as safe spaces, or as excluding due to hegemonic ideals.

We conclude that fetishism should not be considered a clear construction but negotiated through historic and contemporary discourses, and that fetishism can deconstruct hegemonic notions of sexuality.}},
  author       = {{Larsson, Oskar and Saarela, Noah}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Hjärta till hjärta: fetischisters livsvärldar, gemenskaper och självförståelser}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}