CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Turai, Katalin Ráhel |
|---|---|
| Title | "Hard To Tell in a Word": Narratives of Bisexuality in Hungary |
| Summary | In this thesis I examine meanings of bisexuality in present-day Hungary. I explore personal meanings, acquired through the analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with people who claim to have attractions towards women and men; however, I argue that personal meanings have roots in broader social-cultural narratives. Therefore my aim is to detect the influence of socially available discourses in the personal accounts. I examine bisexual meanings first connected to interpretations of the post-socialist Hungary to show how these meanings are mediated through temporal and spatial-national binaries. Then, given that bisexuality lies in the intersection of sexuality and gender, I focus on how they are conceived and linked to bisexuality in the interviews. I argue that through binary categories structuring understandings of Hungary, sexuality, and gender, people define the character of their bisexuality – and, at the same time, their lives full of overlaps and ambiguities force them to challenge these categories. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Z. |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/turai_katalin.pdf |
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