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Gender without sex(uality)? Exploring the relationship between gender and
sexuality at the empirical sites of asexuality and sexual abstinence

   Cuthbert, Karen Lilian Kathleen (2017) Gender without sex(uality)?
   Exploring the relationship between gender and sexuality at the
   empirical sites of asexuality and sexual abstinence. PhD thesis,
   University of Glasgow.
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Abstract

   This thesis is a case study of the relationship between gender and
   sexuality at the empirical sites of asexuality and sexual abstinence.
   Whilst this relationship has been theorised in a number of ways, there
   has been limited empirical research on how this relationship ‘works’ in
   practice, with extant studies focusing largely on transgender. I
   suggest that asexuality and abstinence represent an interesting site to
   explore this relationship since they represent, for want of a better
   term, a lack, absence, or negative sexuality (in that there is a lack
   of sexual attraction to others, or there is an abstention from sexual
   activity). The study is also warranted due to the insufficient
   sociological research on abstinence, as well as the limitations of the
   literature and research in the nascent interdisciplinary field of
   asexuality studies.

   Through conducting qualitative research (using interviews and
   notebooks) with 33 participants who identified as asexual or abstinent,
   I found that gender and sexuality were experienced as entangled in the
   lives of participants. With reference to the socio-structural context
   of hetero-patriarchy, I trace how ideas about sexual desire, sexual
   activity and sexual agency are (still) gendered, and how this impacts
   on both the construction of abstinence and asexuality as concepts, as
   well as in the experiences participants had as asexual people or as
   people who were practising abstinence. I also explore how sexuality was
   central to participants’ understandings of gender, and how this
   affected their gender identities, gendered appearances, and experiences
   of gendered embodiment. Ultimately, this thesis argues for the
   importance in theorising and researching gender and sexuality together,
   and in particular, for the importance of ‘gendering’ sexualities
   research.
   Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
   Qualification Level: Doctoral
   Keywords: Gender, sexuality, asexuality, sexual abstinence, celibacy,
   hetero-patriarchy.
   Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
   H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
   Colleges/Schools: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and
   Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
   Funder's Name: Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
   Supervisor's Name: Dawson, Dr. Matt and Stella, Dr. Francesca
   Date of Award: 2017
   Depositing User: Ms Karen Cuthbert
   Unique ID: glathesis:2017-8633
   Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
   Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2017 15:27
   Last Modified: 16 Jan 2018 10:44
   URI: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/8633

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