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- Title
Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong.
- Authors
Tsui, Pamela P.
- Abstract
Despite queer theory's intention to critically analyze the institution of heterosexuality, how heterosexual men and women are differently constrained by normativity—or potentially rupture it—is underexplored. Through an ethnography of sex partying, I integrate queer and feminist perspectives to examine how people navigate and cope with institutionalized heterosexuality and compulsory monogamy. This study finds a contradictory relationship between sex partygoers and normativity: They embrace the ideal of straight manhood and womanhood but simultaneously feel constrained by and desire to transgress it. Therefore, the bounded nonnormativity of sex partying, which allows the compartmentalization of normative and nonnormative desires, is instrumental in helping them cope with the contradiction. This paper contributes to gendering transnational queer sociology by highlighting the distinct experiences of men and women in relation to the regime of normalcy in Hong Kong.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); HETEROSEXUALITY; HETEROSEXUALS; MAN-woman relationships; QUEER theory
- Publication
Gender & Society, 2024, Vol 38, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
0891-2432
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/08912432231207046