A scholar whose research work focuses on issues of gender and sexuality, Petula Sik Ying Ho teaches at the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Social Work and Administration. She obtained her B.Soc.Sc.,. and M. Soc. Sc., Phil. from the University of Hong Kong, while she studied for her doctorate degree at the University of Essex. In recent years, Ho has expanded upon her academic work by branching into documentary filmmaking to explore the integration of arts and scholarship. Beginning in 2007, she has made several series of short films, based on interviews with individuals from various sectors of society. These include 22 Springs, The Invincible (2008-2009); Whatever Will Be, Will Be: Mothers Daughters of Hong Kong (2010-2011); Hong Kong Calling Tokyo (2011-2013); and The “Kong-lo” Chronicles (2010-2014).
Ho, Petula Sik Ying. Sex and Desire in Hong Kong. Ed. Tsang, Adolf Ka Tat. Hong Kong: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2012. Print.
Journal articles by Petula Ho:
Ho, Petula. “Eternal Mothers or Flexible Housewives? Middle-Aged Chinese Married Women in Hong Kong.” Sex Roles 57.3 (2007): 249-65. Print.
Jackson, Stevi, Petula Sik Ying Ho, and Jin Nye Na. “Reshaping Tradition? Women Negotiating the Boundaries of Tradition and Modernity in Hong Kong and British Families.” Sociological Review 61.4 (2013): 667-87. Print.
Ho, Petula. “Researching with a Broken Arm: Finding Sisterhood in Injury.” Sexualities 16.1 (January 2013): 78-93.
Ho, Petula and Ding Yu. “Beyond Sex Work in the Pearl River Delta: Accumulating Sexual Capital as a Life Advancement Strategy.” Sexualities 16.1 (January 2013): 43-60.
(With Wong, A.) The Ethics and Poetics of Package Tour – Marriage in Hong Kong Unpacked. Sexualities
(With Yan, E.) Defining Sexuality: Older Men and Women Looking Back on their Sexual Experiences. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
Politics of Iconogenesis. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies(in press)
Hong Kong men’s stories of intra-national cross border romances. Asian Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development. (Accepted for Publication)
(With Zhang, H.P., & Yip, P) Does similarity breed marital and sexual satisfaction? Journal of Sex Research. (Accepted for Publication)
(With Pei, Y. X) Gender, self and pleasure: The analysis of young women’s discourse on masturbation in contemporary Shanghai. Culture, Health and Sexuality. 11(5), 515-528.
Not So Great Expectations: Sex and Housewives in Hong Kong. Journal of Sex Research, 45(4), 338-349.
Squaring the ‘charmed’ circle: Normality and happiness of married women in Hong Kong. Asian Journal of Women Studies, 14 (2), 30-58.
豁出高潮：香港師奶情慾再表述 [Re-visiting Orgasm And Desire: The Representations of Sinai’s In Hong Kong] 日本情色：華人慾望－媒介擬想 [Envisage: A Journal Book of Chinese Media Studies], 5, 83-106.
Eternal mothers or flexible housewives: Middle-aged Chinese married women in Hong Kong. Sex Roles: A Journal of Sex Research: 57, 249-265.
Desperate housewives – The case of “Si-nai” in Hong Kong. Affilia, Journal of Women and Social Work: 22 (3), 255-270.
(with Tsang, A. K. T) Lost in translation: Sex & sexuality in elite discourse and everyday language. Sexualities, 10 (5), 623-644.
(with Wang, X. Y.) Violence and desire in Beijing: A young Chinese woman’s strategies of resistance in incest and dating relationships. Violence Against Women, 13(12), 1319-1338.
Money in the private chamber – Hong Kong Chinese women’s way of planning for their retirement. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 22, 84-98.
(with Wang, X. Y.) My sassy girl: Women’s aggression in dating relationships in Beijing. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 22, 623-638.
(with Pei, Y. X., & Ng, M. L.) Studies on women’s sexuality in China since 1980 – A critical review. Journal of Sex Research. 44 (2), 1-11.
(with Wu, W., Fore, S., & Wang, X.) Beyond virtual carnival and masquerade: In-game marriage on the Chinese Internet. Games and Culture, 2(1), 59-89.
The (charmed) circle game: Reflections on sexual hierarchy through multiple sexual relationships. Sexualities, 9(5), 549-566.
(with Pei, Y. X.) Iron girls, strong women, beautiful women writers and super girls: A discourse analysis of the gender performance of women in contemporary China. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 15, 61-71.
(with Tsang, A. K. T.) Beyond the vagina-clitoris debate: From naming the sex organ to the reclaiming of the body. Women’s Studies International Forum, 28, 523-534.
(with Wong, D. H. W., Cheng, S. L., & Pei, Y. X.) The real deal or no big deal – Chinese women in Hong Kong and the orgasmic experience. Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, 1, 177-187.
(with Tsang, A. K. T.) The things girls’ shouldn’t see: Relocating the penis in sex education in Hong Kong. Sex Education, 2(1), 61-73.
(with Tsang, A. K. T.) Social work doctoral education in Hong Kong – A post-colonial snapshot. Journal of International and Comparative Social Welfare, XVIII (1&2), 113-122.
Breaking down or breaking through: An alternative way to understand depression among women in Hong Kong. The Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 10(3), 89-106.
(with Chan, C., & Chow, E.) A Body-Mind-Spirit model in health: An Eastern approach. Social Work in Health Care, 34(3/4), 261-282.
(with Tsang, A. K. T.) Negotiating anal intercourse in inter-racial gay relationships in Hong Kong. Sexualities, 3(3), 299-323.
Developing a social constructionist therapy approach in working with gay men and their families in Hong Kong. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 9(4), 69-97.
Male homosexual identity in Hong Kong: A social construction. Journal of Homosexuality, 29(1), 71-88.
(with Ma, J., & Cheung, L.) Integration of adult learning theory with social skills training in field instruction. Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 1(1), 59-70.
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