Congratulations to PhD candidate Pamela Tsui on winning the 2024 Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award from the ASA Section on Sex and Gender, as well as an Honorable Mention from the Section on Sexualities. Her winning paper, “Bounded Nonnormativity of Heterosexuality: Gendered Sex Partying in Hong Kong,” examines how heterosexual men and women experience normativity in the forms of institutionalized heterosexuality and compulsory monogamy. Tsui draws on queer theory and feminist perspectives to make sense of ethnographic data. Findings reveal a contradiction around normativity, as study participants both embraced and sought to transgress normative straight manhood and womanhood. Read the award-winning article open access in Gender & Society.
Pamela Tsui is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Toronto, where her work intersects gender and sexuality, social movements, economic sociology, and ethnographic methods.