Diana Khor
Biographic Data
| ID | 217719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Khor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Khor |
| SIGNATURE | KHOR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hosei University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires
Postwar Japan has built a new self-image as a peaceful, ethnically homogeneous island nation, obscuring the imperialist past. In this context, same-ethnic/racial partnering or so-called ethnic endogamy has been reinforced, whether gay or straight, as a normative sexual desire and practice. Japanese people who engage in intimate relationships with foreigners are potentially considered deviant and subject to social marginalization. Drawing on in-de…
Lesbian kinship in Asia
Cognizant that concepts and theories in the study of sexualities have been developed in the context of the West, scholars researching lesbian lives in Asia are attuned to the local cultural context and seek to understand how lesbians negotiate their sexualities and partnership especially in the web of kin relations. Some scholars have come up with different concepts to capture the disclosure of non-heteronormative identities, but almost all look …
Negotiating same-sex partnership in a 'tolerant' state
This paper analyzes how SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) rights and same-sex partnership are framed and discussed at the macro-level of state discourse as well as the micro-level of individual negotiation of partnership in Japan. Drawing on but reformulating Puar’s concept of homonationalism, we found that the Japanese state projects a progressive national identity that consists ironically in denying full citizenship to sexual and ge…
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships and marriages has been at the forefront of media attention in East Asian societies. For our comparative study, we carried out qualitative in-depth interviews with 31 gay men and lesbians to investigate the nuanced understanding of marriage, family and sexual citizenship within the context of debates on marriage equality across Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. Expanding on the theoretical concepts in Chen's '…
Global Norms, State Regulations, and Local Activism: Marriage Equality and Same-Sex Partnership, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Rights in Japan and Hong Kong
This chapter discusses the intersection of sexual minority rights, global polity, and political economy through case studies of marriage equality in Japan and Hong Kong. Past research on the complex relationship between local activism and global norms in Japan and Hong Kong is limited. Through a detailed analysis of interconnecting discursive practices among governments, local nongovernmental organizations on LGBT rights, United Nations covenants…
‘How Did You Two Meet?’ Lesbian Partnerships in Present-day Japan
“Doing Gender”: A Critical Review and an Exploration of Lesbigay Domestic Arrangements
Through thinking about and empirically analyzing lesbigay domestic arrangements in Sweden, this paper aims at broadening the understanding of gender and further developing the “doing gender” perspective as applied to housework division. It begins with a review of empirical findings of and the application of the “doing gender” approach to housework division, identifying problems associated with a focus on heterosexual units in a context where gend…
Organizing for Change: Women's Grassroots Activism in Japan
Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations
(1997). Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 197-220
Toward an Integration of Theory and Research on the Status of Women
This article develops an approach to cross-national research on the status of women that merges theoretical and methodological concerns. The approach consists of understanding the concept status of women within three dimensions-political, economic, and cultural. The article differentiates between a public and a private domain within each dimension. To understand and compare the status of women in different countries, it is argued that it is imper…
Toward an Integration of Theory and Research on the Status of Women
This article develops an approach to cross-national research on the status of women that merges theoretical and methodological concerns. The approach consists of understanding the concept status of women within three dimensions-political, economic, and cultural. The article differentiates between a public and a private domain within each dimension. To understand and compare the status of women in different countries, it is argued that it is imper…
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships and marriages has been at the forefront of media attention in East Asian societies. For our comparative study, we carried out qualitative in-depth interviews with 31 gay men and lesbians to investigate the nuanced understanding of marriage, family and sexual citizenship within the context of debates on marriage equality across Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. Expanding on the theoretical concepts in Chen's '…
Negotiating same-sex partnership in a 'tolerant' state
This paper analyzes how SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) rights and same-sex partnership are framed and discussed at the macro-level of state discourse as well as the micro-level of individual negotiation of partnership in Japan. Drawing on but reformulating Puar’s concept of homonationalism, we found that the Japanese state projects a progressive national identity that consists ironically in denying full citizenship to sexual and ge…
Organizing for Change: Women's Grassroots Activism in Japan
Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations
(1997). Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 197-220
Toward an Integration of Theory and Research on the Status of Women
This article develops an approach to cross-national research on the status of women that merges theoretical and methodological concerns. The approach consists of understanding the concept status of women within three dimensions-political, economic, and cultural. The article differentiates between a public and a private domain within each dimension. To understand and compare the status of women in different countries, it is argued that it is imper…
Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations
(1997). Shared commitment, divergent demands: Conceptualizing and understanding cross‐national differences in orientations of feminist organizations. International Review of Sociology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 197-220
Organizing for Change: Women's Grassroots Activism in Japan
“Doing Gender”: A Critical Review and an Exploration of Lesbigay Domestic Arrangements
Through thinking about and empirically analyzing lesbigay domestic arrangements in Sweden, this paper aims at broadening the understanding of gender and further developing the “doing gender” perspective as applied to housework division. It begins with a review of empirical findings of and the application of the “doing gender” approach to housework division, identifying problems associated with a focus on heterosexual units in a context where gend…
‘How Did You Two Meet?’ Lesbian Partnerships in Present-day Japan
Global Norms, State Regulations, and Local Activism: Marriage Equality and Same-Sex Partnership, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Rights in Japan and Hong Kong
This chapter discusses the intersection of sexual minority rights, global polity, and political economy through case studies of marriage equality in Japan and Hong Kong. Past research on the complex relationship between local activism and global norms in Japan and Hong Kong is limited. Through a detailed analysis of interconnecting discursive practices among governments, local nongovernmental organizations on LGBT rights, United Nations covenants…
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan
Legal recognition of same-sex partnerships and marriages has been at the forefront of media attention in East Asian societies. For our comparative study, we carried out qualitative in-depth interviews with 31 gay men and lesbians to investigate the nuanced understanding of marriage, family and sexual citizenship within the context of debates on marriage equality across Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. Expanding on the theoretical concepts in Chen's '…
Lesbian kinship in Asia
Cognizant that concepts and theories in the study of sexualities have been developed in the context of the West, scholars researching lesbian lives in Asia are attuned to the local cultural context and seek to understand how lesbians negotiate their sexualities and partnership especially in the web of kin relations. Some scholars have come up with different concepts to capture the disclosure of non-heteronormative identities, but almost all look …
Negotiating same-sex partnership in a 'tolerant' state
This paper analyzes how SOGI (sexual orientation and gender identity) rights and same-sex partnership are framed and discussed at the macro-level of state discourse as well as the micro-level of individual negotiation of partnership in Japan. Drawing on but reformulating Puar’s concept of homonationalism, we found that the Japanese state projects a progressive national identity that consists ironically in denying full citizenship to sexual and ge…
Doubly marginalized? Japanese gay men with interracial desires
Postwar Japan has built a new self-image as a peaceful, ethnically homogeneous island nation, obscuring the imperialist past. In this context, same-ethnic/racial partnering or so-called ethnic endogamy has been reinforced, whether gay or straight, as a normative sexual desire and practice. Japanese people who engage in intimate relationships with foreigners are potentially considered deviant and subject to social marginalization. Drawing on in-de…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · General partnership (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Lesbian (3 works)