主講人：
蔡玉萍（香港中文大學社會學系教授）
時間：2019年5月17日下午3:30-5:10
地點：北京師範大學後主樓2226
講座介紹：
This presentation examines how rural-to-urban migration changes family and gender dynamics, with a particular focus on men and masculinity. It shows how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. It also reveals how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division oflabor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China’s sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations. The concept of masculine compromise highlights how changes in gender relationships ushered by migration are characterized by a combination of pragmatic adjustments and the continued salience of male gender identity and traditional ideology.
主講人介紹：
Susanne YP Choi received her D.Phil from Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is currently Professor at the Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University in 2013. Her lead-authored book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China published by University of California Press in 2016 won the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration 2018 Best Book Award. Her other works were published in top international journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, and British Journal of Sociology. Susanne has received the Young Researcher’s Research Excellence Award, Research Excellence Award, Exemplary Teaching Award, Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award, and the Research Mentorship Award. She is currently working on two research projects on masculinity and service work, and sexuality and migration.