【Speechs@GARC】 Strategic Resistance against Gender Binaries: Chinese Women Doing Zhongxing in Hong Kong and Urban China

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【Speechs@GARC】
Strategic Resistance against Gender Binaries: Chinese Women Doing Zhongxing in Hong Kong and Urban China
Presenter： Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (李卓賢)(英國蘭卡斯特大學社會學系)
Presider： Liu Wen (中研院社會所助理研究員教授)
Time：2023年4月18日(二)12:30-14:00
Venue：台大社科院108室
Abstract：
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.