Lucetta Kam Yip Lo

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” (回歸‧出櫃) 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 (置疑婚姻家庭連續體, 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