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View article: Seeking Love and Justice Amid Hong Kong’s Contentious Politics
Seeking Love and Justice Amid Hong Kong’s Contentious Politics Open
Hong Kong women activists’ understanding of love and justice has shaped, and been shaped, by their political engagement under changing circumstances through two phases of mass protest: in 2014 and 2019. This article is focused on the senti…
View article: Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis
Storytelling, sociology and sexuality: Ken Plummer’s humanist narrative analysis Open
We are approaching Ken Plummer’s work from the standpoint of our shared history in interactionist sociologies of sexuality and interest in sexual storytelling. Plummer was truly a trailblazer in the study of sexuality. He was one of the fi…
View article: Locating sexual politics and gendered lives: East Asian perspectives
Locating sexual politics and gendered lives: East Asian perspectives Open
This special issue brings together 11 articles on gendered lives in East Asia written by East Asian scholars. Despite recognition of this region’s economic ascendancy and increasing awareness of it...
View article: Doing being observed: Experimenting with collaborative focus group analysis in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong
Doing being observed: Experimenting with collaborative focus group analysis in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong Open
Democratising social inquiry is particularly relevant in the context of Hong Kong’s recent social movements, where political divisions have created rifts among families and friends. In exploring the Umbrella Movement’s personal impact on a…
View article: Interconnected Histories: Locating Women’s Lives in Time and Space
Interconnected Histories: Locating Women’s Lives in Time and Space Open
The lives of the women we discuss in this book have been shaped by differing social circumstances in separate locales on the opposite side of the world from each other. The older generation, the mothers, were born in the decades following …
View article: Concluding Reflections
Concluding Reflections Open
We began this book by reflecting on the theoretical hegemony of western scholarship, especially western social theory, and in the hope of making a small contribution to unsettling western knowledge claims and to internationalising feminist…
View article: Introduction: The Genesis of a Transnational Collaborative Project
Introduction: The Genesis of a Transnational Collaborative Project Open
This book derives from a comparative study of the personal lives of young adult women and their mothers in Hong Kong and Britain (England and Wales) against a backdrop of social change in both societies.
View article: Sex With Chinese Characteristics: Sexuality Research in/on 21st-Century China
Sex With Chinese Characteristics: Sexuality Research in/on 21st-Century China Open
This article examines the changing contours of Chinese sexuality studies by locating recent research in historical context. Our aim is to use the literature we review to construct a picture of the sexual landscape in China and the sociocul…
View article: Speaking against Silence: Finding a Voice in Hong Kong Chinese Families through the Umbrella Movement
Speaking against Silence: Finding a Voice in Hong Kong Chinese Families through the Umbrella Movement Open
Social movement researchers have investigated how personal relationships and emotional attachments are implicated in activism, but less attention has been given to the ways in which activism affects personal lives. This article addresses t…
View article: A tale of two societies: The doing of qualitative comparative research in Hong Kong and Britain
A tale of two societies: The doing of qualitative comparative research in Hong Kong and Britain Open
This article explores the challenges and opportunities for methodological innovation arising from an exploratory, cross-national, qualitative study of women’s lives in Hong Kong and Britain. We begin by briefly outlining the aims of our st…
View article: The social context of ageing and intergenerational relationships in Chinese families
The social context of ageing and intergenerational relationships in Chinese families Open
Population ageing is a global issue, primarily in richer and developed countries, and raises questions about the place of elders in society, their quality of life, and care for those who can no longer care for themselves, as well as the wi…