CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Wildey, Madison |
|---|---|
| Title | Experiencing Biphobia: Navigating Bisexuality within Intimate Relationships and the Queer Community in Austria |
| Summary | This thesis explores bisexual individuals and their experiences of biphobia within their intimate and sexual relationships and within the queer community, in Austria. Utilizing in-depth, semi-structured interviews, I examine bisexual individuals’ narratives and analyze how biphobia in the way it is exhibited, differs depending on the perpetrator and the space in which it occurs. While bisexuality and biphobia are under-researched, there are even fewer studies examining the intricacies of biphobia and how it is presented differently within different spaces. In doing so I also explore the interviewee’s own conceptualization of their bisexuality, where I argue that bisexuality interrogates contemporary conceptions of gender and sexuality binaries, and while bisexuality is commonly seen as being situated in between hetero- and homosexuality, this makes bisexual individuals susceptible to experience biphobia from both hetero- and homonormative spaces. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley; Turai, Ráhel |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/wildey_madison.pdf |
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