【亞比中心系列演講】 Strategic Resistance against Gender Binaries: Chinese Women Doing Zhongxing in Hong Kong and Urban China
【亞比中心系列演講】
Strategic Resistance against Gender Binaries: Chinese Women Doing Zhongxing in Hong Kong and Urban China
中性（Zhongxing）是指在當代東亞華語社會中，自2000年代中期以來，無論性取向如何，不符合常規性別表現的年輕女性。4/18亞比中心邀請來自英國蘭卡斯特大學社會學系的Eva教授分享「中性」如何作為一種抵抗主流的性別實作。Eva教授以深度訪談和網路的論述分析為資料探討中國城市和香港女性的中性生活經驗。Eva教授認為，單純的認同取向無法充分理解這種在性別中處於不確定和不穩定位置的現象。相反，她提出了一種實踐方法基於跨國女性主義和亞洲酷兒研究的跨學科框架，以了解女性在日常生活中對抗性別二元對立的流動性、不穩定性和處境性的策略性抵抗。
主講人： Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (李卓賢)(英國蘭卡斯特大學社會學系)
主持人： 劉文 (中研院社會所助理研究員教授)
時間：2023年4月18日(二)12:30-14:00
地點：台大社科院108室
演講大綱：
Zhongxing (中性), literally meaning ‘middle gender/sex’ or ‘neutral gender/sex’, is a mediated and gendered phenomenon in contemporary East Asian Sinophone societies that refers to young women who do not perform the normative gender regardless of their sexual orientations since the mid-2000s. In this talk, I will explore the lived experience of zhongxing among women in urban China and Hong Kong, drawing from in-depth interviews and online discourse analysis. I argue that an identitarian approach is inadequate in understanding this precarious and ambiguous position in doing gender. Instead, informed by an interdisciplinary framework of transnational feminist and queer Asian studies, I propose a practice approach to understand the fluidity, precarity, and situatedness of women’s strategic resistance against gender binaries in their everyday life.
*本次演講以英文進行、中英文進行QA。報名並前20位入場聽眾可獲得輕時餐盒一份。
