Exploring the production of marginalizing behaviours in women who have sex with women
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Clark, Jenn
issued: 2021-04-28T18:32:46Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Our sexual self is learned across our lifespan. We learn what behaviour is acceptable and what behaviour is not. The things that we learn about our sexual self are steeped in hegemonic ideologies. Without conscious awareness, we then act out our sexual interactions with scripted behaviour which allows for mutual understanding between two parties but also women. Specifically, I examine the intragroup violence that is perpetrated through relational aggression using a sample of women who have sex with women (WSW). Interviewing WSW recounting interactions with potential paramours, participants were asked to discuss whether objectification was present in their experiences. A qualitative thematic analysis was performed on the interview scripts. The analysis identified several nodes of objectification. Using a combination of sexual script theory and film analysis, this research identifies the enactment of intragroup relational aggression tactics through the objectification of WSW by WSW. Objectification is one method of dehumanizing individuals. Objectifying paramours in the WSW communities’ acts as enforcement to conform others to the hegemonic ideologies of the groups. Further interrogation of the hegemonic ideologies of WSW communities brings forth an understanding of how these interactions are learned. This thesis explores the construction and enactment of ideologies that occur in interactions between women who have sex with women.
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note: Exploring the Production of Marginalizing Behaviours in Women who have Sex with Women by Jenn Clark B.A., Kwantlen College, 2013 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2021 ©Jenn Clark, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: Exploring the Production of Marginalizing Behaviours in Women who have sex with Women Submitted by Jenn Clark in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts In Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Examining Committee: Janice Stewart, Professor of Teaching, Associate Dean Innovation and Strategy, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC Supervisor Jennifer Jenson, Professor, Language and Literacy Education, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Our sexual self is learned across our lifespan. We learn what behaviour is acceptable and what behaviour is not. The things that we learn about our sexual self are steeped in hegemonic ideologies. Without conscious awareness, we then act out our sexual interactions with scripted behaviour which allows for mutual understanding between two parties but also women. Specifically, I examine the intragroup violence that is perpetrated through relational aggression using a sample of women who have sex with women (WSW). Interviewing WSW recounting interactions with potential paramours, participants were asked to discuss whether objectification was present in their experiences. A qualitative thematic analysis was performed on the interview scripts. The analysis identified several nodes of objectification. Using a combination of sexual script theory and film analysis, this research identifies the enactment of intragroup relationa…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0397003
language: eng
degree discipline: Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78018