CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Filova, Evgenija |
|---|---|
| Title | Asexual Perversions |
| Summary | Already in its linguistic formulation, asexuality is situated in a particular deviance and opposition to sexuality. The aim of my thesis is to investigate the negativity endogenous to asexuality and how it problematizes the sexual and the nonsexual. Looking at early theoretical work and academic articles written about asexuality, I use discourse analysis and close reading to question how and why has a negative assumption been made endogenous to asexuality at its epistemological construction. I am using visual analysis and auto-ethnography to interrogate particular positions and representations of asexuality which are intersecting with sexuality. My research includes theoretical work about sex and sexuality with a particular focus on the separation between the two and the function of sex within theoretical concepts of sexuality. I cover as well a literature review of queer negativity that has been a prominent concept within queer studies and which is particularly relevant to the study of asexual negativity since asexuality itself is partially situated with queer studies and sexualities. I use the theories of sex and sexuality and queer negativity to analyze a particular trend in asexuality writing that hails a radical potential within asexuality to destabilize sexual normativity. I investigate how is sexual normativity theorized and how the potential within asexuality is formulated as destabilizing and radical. Therefore a particular locus of intersection in my research becomes the problematization of the sexual and nonsexual evoked by asexuality. I finalize my analysis of the negativity endogenous to asexuality as a perversion of the nonopposition of the sexual and the nonsexual captured by the epistemological standpoint of asexuality. |
| Supervisor | Yoon, Hyaesin |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/filova_evgenija.pdf |
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