Kam Yip Lo, Lucetta
Assistant Professor
Humanities
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Dr. Kam received her M.Phil and Ph. D in Gender Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in Chinese societies, emerging forms of intimacy in contemporary China, Tongzhi communities and activism and Hong Kong studies. She just published a new book Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (2013). Some of her recent publications include “Return, Come Out” (回æ¸â€§å‡ºæ«ƒ) in Journal of Local Discourse 2012 (本土論述2012), “A Smile on the Surface: Family Politics of Lala Women in Shanghai” in Querying Marriage-Family Continuum (置疑婚姻家åºé€£çºŒé«”, 2011), “Opening Up Marriage: Married Lalas in Shanghai” in As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Mainland China and Hong Kong (2010) and “Recognition through Mis-recognition: Masculine Women in Hong Kong” in AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in the Asia-Pacific (2008).
Research Interest
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Sex and Gender in the Media Creative Writing in Practice Hong Kong Studies A History of Personal Writings
Publications
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Lucetta KYL (2015) Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
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Lucetta KYL (2015) The Demand for a Normal Life: Marriage and Its Discontents in Contemporary China. In Mark McLelland and Vera Mackie (eds) Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia. London and New York: Routledge.
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Lucetta KYL (2015) Coming Home, Coming Out: Doing Fieldwork in an Unfamiliar Homeland. In Hongwei Bao and Elisabeth L. Engebretsen (ed.) Queer/Tongzhi China: Perspectives on Political Activism and Academic Theory in the People’s Republic. Denmark: NIAS Press.
