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Genders, transgenders and sexualities in Japan /

Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities. Written by key J...

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Other Authors: McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020, Dasgupta, Romit
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Subjects:
Gender identity > Japan.
Homosexuality > Japan.
Transsexualism > Japan.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0203346831
9780203346839
9781134260584
113426058X
9781134260539
1134260539
9781134260577
1134260571
9780415405850
0415405858
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction / MARK MCLELLAND
  • chapter 2 Hegemonic gender in Japanese as a foreign language education: Australian perspectives / YURIKO NAGATA
  • chapter 3 The origins of "queer studies" in postwar Japan / HITOSHI ISHIDA
  • chapter 4 Transgendering shoj̄o shos̄etsu: girls' inter-text/sex-uality / TOMOKO AOYAMA
  • chapter 5 From The Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western translations and Japanese lesbian identities / BEVERLY CURRAN
  • chapter 6 The politics of okama and onabe: uses and abuses of terminology regarding homosexuality and transgender WIM LUNSING
  • chapter 7 Salarymen doing queer: gay men and the heterosexual public sphere / MARK MCLELLAND
  • chapter 8 Being male in a female world: masculinity and gender in Okinawan shamanism / MATTHEW ALLEN
  • chapter 9 "Understanding through the body:" the masquerades of / Mishima Yukio and Morimura Yasumasa VERA MACKIE
  • chapter 10 An introduction to men's studies / KIMIO ITO ̄
  • chapter 11 Rethinking Japanese masculinities: recent research trends / FUTOSHI TAGA
  • chapter 12 Salarymen doing straight: heterosexual men and the dynamics of gender conformity / ROMIT DASGUPTA
  • chapter 13 Feminist futures in Japan: exploring the work of Haruka / Yok̄o and Kitahara Minori LAURA DALES
  • chapter 14 Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club / AKIKO TAKEYAMA.

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