CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Gonzalez, Szandra Lucia |
|---|---|
| Title | Let's Party! A Sense of 'Imagined Community' at Women-Only Parties in Budapest |
| Summary | This paper aims at exploring a specific environment: women-only spaces where nightlife socialization in Budapest takes place. Empirical research was completed through participant observation for a period of five months at two specific recurring events and over a dozen in-depth interviews with partygoers. These events were the monthly Ösztrösökk parties and the weekly “ladies night” held at the gay nightclub Revans until April of 2009. Though many elements were researched, this study focuses on the creation of ‘lifeworlds’ within a very diverse group of women. I will argue that while lesbians in Budapest come from very different social backgrounds and self-categorizations (such as ‘dyke,’ ‘femme,’ ‘butch’ and ‘elite’) and the different spaces researched call for different social classes, there is still an “imagined community” created at these events based on an individual need of belonging and identity-construction. |
| Supervisor | Timar, Eszter |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/gonzalez_szandra.pdf |
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