Lecturer: Tori Yang
PhD Cand @ University of British Columbia
Research focus: How socioeconomic status, race, gender and sexuality are mutually constitutive in shaping their migration trajectory and post-migration experiences.
Description:
The bi-weekly gender study seminar is designed for womxn within the sexual minority community to come together, read, learn, and share about our unique identities.
Goal:
The goal of the gender study seminar is to equip members of the sexual minority community, including participants and leaders, with tools, theoretical models, and systematic frameworks derived from the study of gender and sexual minority identities. The objective is to foster a deeper understanding of the latest gender research and shared community experiences.
Logistics:
Recorded session. The content will NOT be shared until ALL the participants agree on sharing the content to their comfort level.
- On the first day of the biweekly cycle, we will send out reading material for the next 2 weeks.
- On the last day, we will gather on Zoom to discuss:
- Overview of the reading material
- How can we use this reading as a lens to examine some aspects of our lives or experiences
- How the assigned reading plays a role in the development/understanding of our identities
- What are some related research areas we can explore to deepen our understanding further
- [optional] Write a paragraph reflecting on the 2 week reading experience. United Proud Womxn will archive any documents that are posted (with the option to be anonymous) and share them with our online community
- UPW posts the reading material for the next bi-weekly period.
Guest Speaker Highlights:
9/9/22: Heteronormativity
Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Signs, vol. 5, no. 4, 1980, pp. 631–60.
9/22/22: Explore the intricate relationship between gender and sexuality
Ingraham, Chrys. “The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender.” Sociological Theory, vol. 12, no. 2, 1994, pp. 203–19. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/201865. Accessed 26 Sep. 2022.
Jackson, S. (2006). Interchanges: Gender, sexuality and heterosexuality: The complexity (and limits) of heteronormativity. Feminist Theory, 7(1), 105–121. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700106061462
10/7/22: Heteronormativity and homophobia
Pascoe, C. J. 2011. Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, With a New Preface. 2nd ed. Chapter 1, 4, 6
10/21/22: Homophobia deep dive
Adam, B. D. (1998). Theorizing Homophobia. Sexualities, 1(4), 387–404.
11/4/22: Focault on history of sexuality
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York, Vintage Books, 198019861985.
1/13/23: Sexual and sexulaity + Chinese Regimes
ZHANG, CHARLIE YI. Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China. Duke University Press, 2022. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv29z1hdt.
1/27/23: Chinese gender & sexuality + Anthropology
Lisa Rofel, Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism (Chapter 7)
Lisa Rofel, Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Chapter 5)
2/10/23: Chinese gender & sexuality + History
Barlow, Tani E. The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism. Duke University Press, 2021. Chapter 2
Barlow, Tani E. In the Event of Women. Duke University Press, 2004 (p 60 – 99)
2/24/23: Chinese gender & sexuality + Western Influences
Nicola Spakowski; “Gender” Trouble: Feminism in China under the Impact of Western Theory and the Spatialization of Identity. positions 1 February 2011; 19 (1): 31–54
3/10/23: Chinese gender & sexuality + Immigration
Shuzhen Huang; Unbecoming Queer: Chinese Queer Migrants and Impossible Subjectivity
Susanne YP Choi; Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men
05/19/23: LGBTQ Politics
Berlant, Lauren, and Michael Warner. 1998. “Sex in Public.”
Taylor, Verta, and Leila J. Rupp. 1993. “Women’ s Culture and Lesbian Feminist Activism: A Reconsideration ofCultural Feminism.
06/02/23: Collective Identities
Taylor, Verta, and Nancy Whittier. 1999. “Collective Identity in Social Movement Communities: Lesbian Feminist Mobilization.”
Ghaziani, Amin, Verta Taylor, and Amy Stone. 2016. “Cycles of Sameness and Difference in LGBT Social Movements.”
06/16/23: Issues in Community Building
Meyer IH. Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence. Psychol Bull. 2003 Sep Gilly Hartal (2018)
Fragile subjectivities: constructing queer safe spaces, Social & Cultural Geography, 19:8, 1053-1072, DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2017.1335877 Stone AL.
Flexible queers, serious bodies: transgender inclusion in queer spaces. J Homosex. 2013;
06/30/23: Charlene Liu on Community Building
07/14/23: Intersectionality
Yuval-Davis, Nira. 2006. “Belonging and the Politics of Belonging.” Patterns of Prejudice 40(3):197–214. doi: 10.1080/00313220600769331.
Carastathis, Anna. 2013. “Identity Categories as Potential Coalitions.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38(4):941–65. doi: 10.1086/669573.
Espiritu, Yen Le. 2001. “‘We Don’t Sleep around like White Girls Do’: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26(2):415–40. doi: 10/fqjkz9.
07/28/23: Chinese gender & sexuality + Immigration
Edelman, Lee. 2004. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Chapter 1
Muñoz, José Esteban. 2009. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. NYU Press. Introduction and Chapter 1
Halberstam, Jack. 2011. “The Queer Art of Failure:” in The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press. Introduction
09/15/23: Prof. Shuzhen Huang – On Our Own Terms: Queer x Chinese × Woman Imaginary
Topics to be covered:
09/19/23: Gendered Embodiment
Bourdieu, Pierre. 2001. Masculine Domination. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press: chapter 1
Young, Iris Marion. 1980. “Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment Motility and Spatiality.” Human Studies 3(2):137-56. doi: 10.1007/BF02331805.
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2014. “Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry.” Gender & Society 28(4):513-36. doi: 10.1177/0891243214523122.
10/06/23: Seminar: Bodily Issues
Markens, Susan. 1996. “The Problematic of ‘Experience’: A Political and Cultural Critique of PMS.” Gender and Society 10(1):42-58. do: 10.1177/089124396010001004.
Saguy. Abigail C., and Anna Ward. 2011. “Coming Out as Fat: Rethinking Stigma.” social Psychology Quarterly 74(1):53-75. do: 10.1177/019027251 1398190.
10/20/23: Book talk by Prof. Tani Barlow
Topics to be covered:
11/03/23: Seminar: Body and Capitalism
Baudrillard, Jean. 2012. The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures. Reprinted. Los Ange-les. Calif.: SAGE: chapter 8
Berardi, Franco. 2009. The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy. Los Angeles: Semio-text(e): Chapter 2 and Conclusion
11/17/23: Seminar: Managing Emotion
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 2012. The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press: Chapter 1,3,4,7,8
12/01/23: Seminar: Affect and Disability
Cvetkovich, Ann. 2012. Depression: A Public Feeling. Duke University Press: Introduction, rest of the book: optional Sick Woman Theory | The Anarchist Library
Sick Woman Theory: Johanna Hedva
McRuer. Robert. 2006. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: New York University Press: Introduction
01/30/24: Prof. Jack Halberstam on Queer Issues
Topics to be covered:
Halberstam challenges conventions, exploring the value in ideas and practices often dismissed as irrelevant or ephemeral. The talk intertwines topics such as anti-capitalism, queer theory, and alternative forms of knowledge and frameworks of thinking.
02/23/24: Commitment
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1968. “Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities.”
Fine, Gary Alan, and Ugo Corte. 2017. “Group Pleasures: Collaborative Commitments, Shared Narrative, and the Sociology of Fun.”
03/08/24: Social Movement LGBTQ+ Politics
Epstein, Steven. 1998. “Gay Politics, Ethnic Identity: The Limits of Social Constructionism.”
Moon, Dawne. 2012. “Who Am I and Who Are We? Conflicting Narratives of Collective Selfhood in Stigmatized Groups.”
03/22/24: Social Movement Strategies
Bernstein, Mary. 1997. “Celebration and Suppression: The Strategic Uses of Identity by the Lesbian and Gay Movement.”
Snow, David A., E. Burke Rochford, Steven K. Worden, and Robert D. Benford. 1986. “Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation.”
Klandermans, Bert, and Dirk Oegema. 1987. “Potentials, Networks, Motivations, and Barriers: Steps Towards Participation in Social Movements.”
04/05/24: Social Movement Challenges
Leonard-Wright, Betsy. 2014. “Missing Class: Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures. First Edition.” Ithaca London: ILR Press. Chapter 5
Whittier, Nancy. 2014. “Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements.”
04/19/24: NGO and Social Change
“The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex.” 2017. Duke University Press: Introduction, chapter on Between Radical Theory and Community Praxis: Reflections on Organizing and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, chapter on Radical Social Change: Searching for a New Foundation