Outputs (4)

Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2023). Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231182015

In its classical form, ballroom dancing constitutes heterosexual dance couples enacting conservative forms of masculinity and femininity. A normative focus, both in scholarship and in practice, on the classical form in competitive ballroom dancing (a... Read More about Gender and Sexuality Performances Among LGBT+ Equality Dancers: Photo-Elicitation as a Method of Inquiry.

LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence (2023)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2024). LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence. Current Sociology, 72(5), 946-966. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921231182182

This article examines the role of dance shoes in LGBT+ ballroom dancers’ identity formation and expression on the dancefloor. Applying Entwistle’s (2015) ‘situated bodily practice’ to an analysis of ethnographic field notes and 35 interviews, I highl... Read More about LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence.

Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa (2017)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2017). Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa. Atlantis, 38(1), 262-264

The essay reviews Allison Goebal’s gendered analysis of women's 'right to the city' in post-apartheid South Africa and concludes that the work makes a crucial contribution to the scholarship in its injection of a 'politics of difference' and a gender... Read More about Review Essay: On Their Own: Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa.

World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development (2012)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. N. (2012). World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development. Forum for Development Studies, 39(3), 435-444. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2012.722769

Since the 1970s, Gender in development has emerged as an issue of concern for development agencies, namely bilateral and multilateral non-government organizations (NGOs). Although initially slow in gaining momentum in the constitution of policies, co... Read More about World Development Report 2012: Gender equality and development.