Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life

By: Tang, Denise Tse-Shang

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Others reject the notion of lesbian spaces and instead assert their visibility in different aspects of everyday life. Based on life history interviews with several dozen lesbians living in Hong Kong, this book maps the complex relations between personal subjectivities and spatialities as they emerge and interact with various social justice movements and alternative communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888083015
• ISBN13: 9789888083015
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher