Genders Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

Genders  Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Author: Mark McLelland,Romit Dasgupta
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2005-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781134260577

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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 Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have questioned received notions and challenged social norms relating to sex and gender. The chapters depict the plurality of gender positions; from housewives opposed to gender roles within marriage to heterosexual men wishing to be more involved in family life. Including material not previously published in English, this volume gives an overview of the important changes taking place in gender and sexuality studies within Japanese scholarship.

Genders Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

Genders  Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Author: Mark McLelland,Romit Dasgupta
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2005-12-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781134260584

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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 Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have questioned received notions and challenged social norms relating to sex and gender. The chapters depict the plurality of gender positions; from housewives opposed to gender roles within marriage to heterosexual men wishing to be more involved in family life. Including material not previously published in English, this volume gives an overview of the important changes taking place in gender and sexuality studies within Japanese scholarship.

Queer Voices from Japan

Queer Voices from Japan
Author: Mark J. McLelland,Katsuhiko Suganuma,James Welker
Publsiher: New Studies in Modern Japan
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: UOM:49015003403889

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Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These essays trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the presence of homosexuality in the Japanese Imperial Army, the development of Japan's first gay bars, and same-sex experiences in the pre- and post-war periods. This book offers a variety of perspectives including a range of male-to-female and female-to-male transgender voices and experiences. The broad scope of this volume makes it an invaluable text for understanding the development of Japanese sex and gender categories in the twentieth century. Queer Voices from Japan is a compelling read that will appeal to those interested in Asian studies and human sexuality.

Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age

Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age
Author: Mark J. McLelland
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0742537870

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Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the U.S. occupation and the international community, contests major interpretations of contemporary queer society, and introduces readers to the development of lesbian, transgender, and gay communities in postwar Japan.Queer Japan from the Pacific Age to the Internet Age provides a historical outline of the development of sexual-minority identity categories and community formation through a detailed analysis of both niche and mainstream publications, including magazines, newspapers, biographies, memoirs, and Internet sites. The material is also augmented with interview data from individuals who have had a long association with Japan's queer cultures.Including a wealth of images from the "perverse press," this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in modern and contemporary Japan and in gender studies and sexuality.

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
Author: Sabine Frühstück
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781108420655

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A lively, accessible survey of genders and sexualities in modern Japanese history from the 1860s to the present.

The Transgender Studies Reader

The Transgender Studies Reader
Author: Susan Stryker,Stephen Whittle
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 770
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781135398910

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Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty influential texts with new introductions by the editors that, taken together, document the evolution of transgender studies in the English-speaking world. By bringing together the voices and experience of transgender individuals, doctors, psychologists and academically-based theorists, this volume will be a foundational text for the transgender community, transgender studies, and related queer theory.

Beyond Common Sense Sexuality And Gender In Contemporary Japan

Beyond Common Sense  Sexuality And Gender In Contemporary Japan
Author: Wim Lunsing
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781317793038

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First published in 2001. This volume is based on the author's visit to Japan in Summer 1986 on his findings about some of the questions he was asked whilst there. He was 25 and these questions centred around asking if he was married or had a girlfriend, when in his homeland of the Netherlands he openly identified as gay. This research is an investigation of how gay and lesbian people, women's and men's liberationaists, singles and other people, such as transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites, whose ideas, feelings or lifestyles are at variance with Japanese constructions of marriage and inherently the construction of life, live in Japan.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture
Author: Jennifer Coates,Lucy Fraser,Mark Pendleton
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781351716789

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This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship, providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope, with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives, fields, and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, history, law, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, politics, and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields. In this volume, Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in Japan, culture, gender studies, and beyond.