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- Gustavson, Malena, 1971-
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Animating hiv: the shifting gazes of spectatorship : A viral repolitization
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- 1986 the Swedish goverment set up a delegation, Aidsdelgationen, with the comission to informingand communicating objective and impartial facts on aids and hiv. The delgation was most known oftheir conspicuous posters that was generously spread in public spaces and media all over Swedenfrom 1987 until about 1993, when the first antiretroviral drugs appeard and most of the campaignsstopped. The posters were, in Sweden as elsewhere, sharply critizised for being moralistic aroundsex, and, above all, for stigmatizing certain groups as risk groups. I have managed to relocate someof the posters and I will discuss what kind of spectatorship they animate; what kind of subjectivitydo we embody by the act of looking, by being exposed to health propaganda?
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- Gustavson, Malena, 1971-
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Beröringspraktiker i sexuella narrativ : Reflektioner kring ett påbörjat fältarbete om sexuella känslor och njutning
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Ingår i: Tidskrift för genusvetenskap TGV. - : Gothenburg University. - 1654-5443. ; :4, s. 7-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I investigate how tactile practicies appear in sexual narratives among trans persons and women in an ongoing ethnographic study on sexual feelings. I explore the political subjectivity of the sexual story, and how it is entangled or detached from mainstream imaginary of sex. Aiming at rerouting touch as categorically reconstructing bodily shapes, I highlight the dynamics between the sensational, emotional, material and social representations. Influenced by feminist and queer writers such as Luce Irigaray, Susan Stryker, Eve Sedgewick and Sara Ahmed I turn to the sexual narratives of how touch would revamp the mainstream discourses of an embodied sexual self.
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- Gustavson, Malena, 1971-
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Bisexuals in relationships : uncoupling intimacy from ontology
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Ingår i: Journal of Bisexuality. - : Routledge. - 1529-9716 .- 1529-9724. ; 9:3-4, s. 407-429
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A dominant notion that homosexuality and heterosexuality give meaning to bisexuality already exists. But no one has explored the meaning that bisexuality might accrue with regard to monosexuality. Because bisexuals were never fully recognized within queer theory, the homosexual–heterosexual binary opposition continues to be the primary understanding of difference. Further, within queer theory, the idea of intimacy seems to be attributed to a gendered ontology, that is, the regulation of gender representation as the point of departure for understanding sexual identities. This circular understanding of gender as a reflection of intimacy is predicated on monosexual desires. Drawing on Clare Hemming's critical location of the bisexual middle ground, this article shifts the focus away from gender ontology, to argue for a theory of relationships that problemizes monogamy as a heterosexual norm (and indeed the idea of gay marriage as a way of normalizing bi- and homosexual desire in heterosexual terms). However, the idea that bisexuals are often seen as nonmonogamous is also questioned, as if there were any organizations of desire connected to a specific set of pleasures. This article is based on in-depth interviews with bisexual women in Sweden between 2000 and 2004 and also highlights the “partnership law” from 1995 and gender neutral marriage in 2009.
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- Gustavson, Malena
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Blandade känslor : bisexuella kvinnors praktik & politik
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Avhandlingen undersöker bisexuella kvinnors praktiker i de maktrelationer som reglerar föreställningar om kön/genus, kroppar och sexualitet. Det är den första fördjupade studien om bisexuella liv i Sverige och fyller ett glapp inom kritisk queerforskning och feministiska studier. Syftet är att dokumentera och undersöka föreställningar om kön och sexualitet i vardagslivet och i kunskapsproduktionen från ett bisexuellt perspektiv och lyfta fram bisexualitet som en analytisk kategori.Utifrån bisexuella kvinnors intervjuberättelser belyser studien deras olika perspektiv och subjektspositioner i svensk samtid. Flera av kvinnorna var också engagerade i dragkingperformance, vilket inspirerade till att söka samband mellan bisexualitet och dragkings.Med avstamp i de teman som framkommer i intervjuerna, t ex monogama och icke-monogam relationer, kroppens materialitet, bisexuell feminism och dragkingframträdanden undersöks hur ett normativt bisexuellt mellangrund omförhandlas och hur bisexualitet opererar som en alternativ strategi i den sexuella och könade geografin. Jämfört med den etablerade kunskapen, både äldre och samtida, både approprierar och avvisar kvinnorna det bisexuella medelgrundet. Studien diskuterar nödvändigheten av ett perspektiv som härrör från bisexuella subjektspositioner och att ett bisexuellt perspektiv är användbart som analytisk kategori inom feminismen och i queerstudier.
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- Gustavson, Malena, et al.
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Culturally queer, silenced in school? Children with LGBTQ parents, and the everyday politics of/in community and school
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Ingår i: Lambda Nordica. Tidskrift för homo/lesbisk/bi/transforskning. - : Föreningen Lambda Nordica. ; 16:2-3, s. 159-186
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Children with lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and/or queer (LGBTQ) parents have received heightened attention during the processes of policy making regarding adoption and donor insemination legislation in Sweden during the 1990s and early 2000s. Yet, very little academic knowledge exists about children and young people in LGBTQ families and their experiences in schools. We engage the idea of "culturally queer" as a potentially useful framework for understanding the experiences of children and young people with LGBTQ parents. School, with its major impact on young people's lives, is one of the sites where family as discourse and practise is negotiated. This is why a group of researchers from Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Lund University (Sweden) are undertaking a study on the school experiences of children and young people with LGBTQ parents. Our first aim is to discuss how these kids are recognized within queer communities. Our second aim is to analyze what we see as a problematic silence in school around children and young people with LGBTQ parents. This is about the powerful and everyday workings of normative understandings of who family should be. Schools and teachers might not see the need to actively include non-normative family-structures in their work. This seemingly innocent-looking process in fact re-constructs ideals of family, childhood, sexuality and gender. It is necessary to actively work against the silencing of kids with LGBTQ parents in the context of school. This is important for these kids; it is equally important for children and young people with heterosexual parents to see that family can be more than mum-dad-child. We see this as a part of the long-established debate in queer theorizing and activism about the meaning and practises of 'family'. We see a need to further theorize the currently ongoing normalization of queer families. At the same time, there is an equally ongoing need for struggle against indirect homophobia and transphobia.
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