Tori Shucheng Yang, Changhui Song, and Hui Xie examine how heterosexual women in China who are unwittingly married to men who have sex with men draw upon heteronormativity to rework their identities in response to the disclosure of their husbands’ sexuality. Their analysis highlights how identity provides a crucial link between individuals’ management of the contradictions in the dominant sexual binary and the reproduction of heteronormativity.
