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“Det är han med den tjocka plånboken som styr”: En feministisk kritisk diskursanalys av framställningar av sugardating på Flashback Forum
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare, Social Work.
Dalarna University, School of Health and Welfare, Social Work.
2022 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
“The guy with the fat wallet is in control” : A feminist critical discourse analysis of the representations of sugardating on Flashback (English)
Abstract [sv]

Syftet med studien är att kritiskt undersöka diskurserna kring sugardating och de diskursiva framställningarna av sugardaters på Flashback Forum, utifrån diskursernas återspegling av ojämlika genus- och maktförhållanden. Studien utforskar även den tvetydiga kopplingen mellan sugardating och prostitution på onlineforumet. Denna kvalitativa studie har sitt avstamp i en feministisk kritisk diskursanalys som har varit studiens teoretiska och metodologiska ramverk. Resultatet av studien visar att sugardating huvudsakligen framställs som ett ömsesidigt arrangemang som baseras på jämlika och fria villkor. Dock begränsas detta när sugarbabies underförstått förväntas gå med på sex. En feministisk analys inspirerad av radikalfeministisk teoribildning samt begreppet postfeminism ger dessutom kopplingen mellan sugardating och prostitution en dubbel tvetydighet. Slutligen diskuterar studien hur de positiva framställningarna av sugardating kan påverka nyfikna personer till ett eventuellt inträde.

Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the discourses of sugardating and the discursive representations of sugardaters on Flashback Forum, based on how they reflect unequal gender- and power relations. The study also explores the ambiguous connection between sugardating and prostitution on the online forum. This qualitative study is based on a feminist critical discourse analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework. The findings show that sugardating is mainly represented as an arrangement based on equal and free terms. However, this is obscured when sugarbabies are implicitly expected to comply with sex. In addition, a feminist analysis inspired by radical feminist theory as well as the notion of postfeminism highlights how the link between sugardating and prostitution implies an ambiguity in a double sense. Finally, it is discussed how the positive representations of sugardating might affect curious readers to consider entering sugardating.

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2022.
Keywords [en]
sugardating, critical discourse analysis, radical feminism, postfeminism, Flashback Forum
Keywords [sv]
sugardating, kritisk diskursanalys, radikalfeminism, postfeminism, Flashback Forum
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Social Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-41937OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-41937DiVA, id: diva2:1683357
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Social Work
Available from: 2022-07-15 Created: 2022-07-15

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