”Förhoppningsvis är man två”: En studie över hur 18-åringar i en mindre stad i Sverige resonerar kring kön, kropp och sexualitet
2010 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
The essay is about how teenagers around 18 years of age in a small town in Sweden talk about gender, body and sexuality. The study is based on two focus group interviews with five boys and four girls. We have then thematized and analyzed the material with queer theory.The results show how young people see heterosexuality as something 'natural' and gender as biologically determined. The teenagers are critical towards anything that deviates from the traditional nuclear family consisting of mother, father and children. Norms are created in their speech as some of them acts as so called "border guards" for these norms. Our conclusion is that there are difficulties to be deviate in terms of gender, sexuality and body in a small town.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. , p. 39
Keywords [en]
Gender, sexuality, heterosexual matrix, queer theory, relationships, focus group
Keywords [sv]
Kön, sexualitet, heterosexuella matrisen, queerteori, relationer, fokusgrupp
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3647OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-3647DiVA, id: diva2:326709
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
Examiners
2010-06-282010-06-232010-06-28Bibliographically approved