CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Palash, Ievgeniia |
|---|---|
| Title | Sexual Dissidents: Russian Slash Fiction Community as a Form of Social and Political Resistance |
| Summary | In this MA project I focus on Russian slash fiction community as a form of social and political resistance in the field of sexual normativity. Contemporary Russian public and political discourse remains increasingly heteronormative and homophobic. On this background, a virtual community dedicated to slash fiction, which is written predominantly by women, has created a space for a more flexible discussion about sexuality in general, and homosexuality in particular. Despite the fact, that slash fiction community is diverse and not unified, I will argue that it is a form of real sexual resistance, even though it doesn’t resemble common, visible and traditionally accepted protest forms. My project demonstrates how resistance could be seen in forms, which are hidden from public discourse, performed by subaltern social groups, and remain significant and influential. My main argument is that slash community is far from being a minor side-effect of media production, in Russia it is a form of contemporary online sexual dissidence, a way of confronting the hegemonic structure of aggressive sexual normativity and subverting the moralistic, nationalistic and religious public discourse. |
| Supervisor | Hadley Z. Renkin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/palash_ievgeniia.pdf |
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