Intersected: Class, Gender and Queer Lives in Post-Reform China - Susanne Yuk Ping Choi
Please join us for the Department of Sociology’s guest lecture, by Leverhulme Visiting Professor Susanne Yuk Ping Choi. The lecture will run 3:30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception 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.
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