Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China

Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture. Our lecture by Leverhulme Visiting Professor (The Leverhulme Trust) Susanne Yuk Ping Choi will be held 3:30-5pm in the John Casken lecture theatre in the Martin Harris Centre. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception at 5-6pm.

Abstract: Despite advances in LGBTQ rights globally, sexual minorities in China have continued to struggle for parental acceptance and full sexual citizenship due to state censorship, social stigmatization, discrimination, and family pressure. While an emergent body of research has documented different aspects of gayand lesbian lives in China, most of it focuses on gay men or lesbians of similar social class backgrounds, thus foregrounding sexuality without paying sufficient attention to the existence of a multiplicity of identities and intersecting structural locations of differences. This presentation develops an intersectionality-through-focused life story (ITFLS) analytical framework to examine the multiple inequalities faced by sexual minorities and illuminate how these inequalities change both over time and during their intimate life cycles.

Susanne Yuk Ping Choi is Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, and Professor of Sociology/Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include migration, gender, family, and sexuality. Her book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China received the Best Book Award of the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration Section (RC31). Her journal articles were published by American Journal of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Sociology, The Sociological Review, Journal of Marriage and Family, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies etc.

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