CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Feró, Dalma |
|---|---|
| Title | Sex outside the New Europe: Hungarian anxieties over 'Europeanness'in media discourses of Hungarian women's prostitution in Dubai |
| Summary | Examining Hungarian media coverage of Hungarian women’s prostitution in Dubai (‘dubaiing’), this media discourse analysis examines the way sexuality becomes a carrier and signifier of anxieties over various social tensions. I argue that dubaiing discourses bear similarities to other instances of anxieties over prostitution and are at the same time situated in the context of broader as well as recent economic, social, and, geopolitical processes affecting Hungary in a global relation. To delineate the specificities of dubaiing discourses, I outline against the backdrop of the coverage of other instances of prostitution the way the media produced dubaiing as a legitimate object of knowledge. These specificities point to tensions in which boundaries of gender, nation, class, race, and ‘civilization’ are inextricably intertwined and negotiated. I analyze how the dynamics of social mobility and gender norms is situated in anxieties over Hungary’s economic potential as well as Hungarian masculine potency, and how this is further located in a discursive field of a gendered, sexualized, classed, and racialized ‘East&#x 2019;-‘W est’ hierarchy and conception of Europeanness. I suggest that dubaiing discourses arise out of anxieties over the crossing of various, interconnected boundaries (gender, class, nation, race, ‘East&#x 2019;-‘W est’) and attend to these anxieties by reinforcing the same boundaries. |
| Supervisor | Klapeer, Christine M. |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/fero_dalma.pdf |
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