CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kormos, Nikolett |
|---|---|
| Title | AIDS and Social Reality in the 80s: A Phenomenological Analysis |
| Summary | This thesis examines the AIDS crisis in the 80s. Its specific aim is to explore the ideological mechanisms in the background of the dominant discourses, and at the same time, to point out that how these discourses affected gay men as subjects, and as members of a group. At first, I provide the phenomenological framework of a heteronormative ideology with specific regard to how one should think about such an ideology in terms of consciousness, social vision, and subject-formation. Then, I examine how the dominant AIDS discourses (medical, media) were engendered on the previously discussed ideological basis, and so how AIDS could be defined by the mainstream media as the „gay plague” or „gay disease”. In this section, I put specific emphasis on the differences between „we” („general population”) and „they” (people living with AIDS – PWAs), as it was implied by the dominant discourse. Finally, I examine how PWAs experience as „us-object” could result in gay shame, and how this shame was overcome. In this section, I argue that both conservative gay („unreflected”), and activist gay („reflected”) answers to the dominant discourses can be interpreted as attempts to get back the temporarily lost gay agency. |
| Supervisor | Timar, Eszter; Renkin, Hadley Z. |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kormos_nikolett.pdf |
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