Título: | IT’S NOT JUST A PHASE: IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS IN BISEXUAL-IDENTIFIED LGBT ACTIVISTS’ NARRATIVES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
ELIZABETH SARA LEWIS |
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Colaborador(es): |
LILIANA CABRAL BASTOS - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 06/NOV/2012 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[pt] Todos os dados constantes dos documentos são de inteira responsabilidade de seus autores. Os dados utilizados nas descrições dos documentos estão em conformidade com os sistemas da administração da PUC-Rio. [en] All data contained in the documents are the sole responsibility of the authors. The data used in the descriptions of the documents are in conformity with the systems of the administration of PUC-Rio. |
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20671&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=20671&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.20671 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The present study analyses the performative, discursive identity
constructions of three LGBT activists who identify as bisexual in narrativas
regarding the process of coming-out and biphobic stereotypes, prejudice and
discriminations. Bisexual-identified individuals are often little accepted in LGBT
movements, despite being theoretically included due to the letter B in the
anagram. Bisexuality is treated as just a phase before coming out as
heterosexual or homosexual, and bisexual-identified people have to deal with
being stereotyped as promiscuous and untrustworthy. This study combines
Applied Linguistics, Queer Linguistics, Anthropology, Queer Theory, Bisexual
Epistemologies and Narrative Analysis. The data were collected in individual
interviews with three bisexual-identified women that participate in an LGBT
activism and awareness group in Rio de Janeiro, in which 22 months of
ethnographic fieldwork were realized from 2010-2012. The analysis concentrates
on the ways in which the three activists construct their bisexual identity
performances as permanent and not promiscuous. In these constructions, we shall
see (1) how they must prove that their identity performances are not just a
phase in order to be accepted, but in so doing reinforce the idea of fixed/stable
identities, (2) how their identity constructions reproduce and/or subvert the
tendency to define sexuality based on the sex/gender of the person(s) desired, and
(3) how the constructions of non-promiscuous bisexual performances exclude
and/or open other possibilities for sexual diversity. The analysis shall be used to
propose discursive and critical-thinking strategies regarding identity categories
that can be further developed with the group’s activists, to encourage the
acceptance of bisexual identity performances and of sexual diversity.
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