Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mclelland, Mark; Dasgupta, Romit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

challenge what it means to be a responsible citizen of modern Japan. Featuring chapters written by key Japanese and Western scholars, "Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan "gives an overview of the important changes taking place in gender and sexuality studies. Including essays on previously overlooked individuals, histories and communities, this illuminating collection will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of Asian studies, anthropology and sexuality and gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134260577
• Artikelnr.: 47884778

Autorenporträt

Mark McLelland is a research fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan (RoutledgeCurzon) and co-editor of Japanese Cybercultures (Routledge). Romit Dasgupta lectures in Japanese language, Japanese Studies, and Asian Studies in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has published widely on the topic of Japanese masculinity in edited collections and academic journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 2. Hegemonic Gender in Japanese as a Foreign Language
Education: Australian Perspectives 3. The Origins of 'Queer Studies' in
Postwar Japan 4. Transgendering Shojo Shosetsu: Girls'
Inter-text/Sex-uality 5. From The Well of Loneliness to the Akarui
Rezubian: Western Translations and Japanese Lesbian Identities 6. The
Politics of Okama and Onabe: Uses and Abuses of Terminology Regarding
Homosexuality and Transgender 7. Salarymen Doing Queer: Gay Men and
Heterosexual Public Sphere 8. Being Male in a Female World: Masculinity and
Gender in Okinawan Shamanism 9. 'Understanding Through the Body': The
Masquerades of Mishima Yukio and Morimura Yasumasa 10. An Introduction to
Men's Studies 11. Rethinking Japanese Masculinities: Recent Research Trends
12. Salarymen Doing Straight: Heterosexual Men and the Dynamics of Gender
Conformity 13. Feminist Futures in Japan: Exploring the Work of Haruka Yoko
and Kitahara Minori 14 Commodified Romance in a Tokyo Host Club