Sensuality as Subversion: Doing Masculinity with Chinese Australian Professionals
通过深度访谈,研究澳大利亚华裔男性专业人士如何利用感官实践(如自我呈现、人际关系和社会文本中的表现)来颠覆对亚洲男性的刻板印象,重新定义男性气质,追求去殖民化、能动性和愉悦。
Within western gender structures, dominant discourses of Asian men as weak, feminized and asexual continue to render Asian masculinities subordinate to white hegemonic ideals. Although research of gender in organization studies has revealed important insights into how gender might be redone or undone, non‐white voices remain marginalized in this critical project. This article explores through in‐depth interviews the ways by which Chinese cis‐male professionals in Australia attempt to coopt desexualizing discourses and ‘do’ masculinity through sensuality. Specifically, the findings show how their sensuality is practised across various dimensions at work and beyond, including via the presentation of the self, relationships with others and representations in social texts. In presenting the voices of Asian men, this article seeks to illuminate their individual and collective pursuits for decolonization, agency and pleasure.