| Description |
1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New approaches to Asian history
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New approaches to Asian history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan describes the ever-changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities in Japanese society from the 1860s to the present day. Analysing a wide range of texts, images and data, Sabine Frühstück considers the experiences of females, males and the evolving spectrum of boundary-crossing individuals and identities in Japan. These include the intersexed conscript in the 1880s, the first 'out' lesbian war reporter in the 1930s, and pregnancy-vest-wearing male governors in the present day. She interweaves macro views of history with stories about individual actors, highlighting how sexual and gender expression has been negotiated in both the private and the public spheres and continues to wield the power to critique and change society. This lively and accessible survey introduces Japanese ideas about modern manhood, modern womenhood, reproduction, violence and sex during war, the sex trade, LGBTQ identities and activism, women's liberation, feminisms and visual culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction. What Is Modern Japan? ; Families and Households ; Codes and Laws ; Words and Concepts ; Frames and Lenses, or How to Read This Book ; The Chapters -- 1. Building the Nation and Modern Manhood. Measuring Hegemonic Masculinity ; Is the Company Man a Real Man? ; Manning the Changing Tables ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 2. Controlling Reproduction and Motherhood ; Revolutionizing Birth ; Contracepting Imperialism ; Why Have Babies? ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 3. Redefining Womanhoods ; Roles and Rights ; New Women, Modern Girls ; Suffrage and Pacifism ; Women's Liberation: Uman Ribu ; Mainstreaming Feminism and Backlash ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 4. Sex at War. Systemic Military Sexual Violence ; Amnesia and Legacies ; Global Commemorations ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 5. The Politics of Sexual Labor. Liberating Prostitutes ; Renewing the Oldest Profession ; The Work of Sex Today ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 6. Queer Identities and Activisms. Culture and Knowledge ; Queer Spaces ; Prohibitions and Rights ; Does Trans Transform Society? ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 7. Sexing Visual Culture. Laughing at Semi-Naked Truths in Erotic Woodblock Prints ; Injurious to Modern Morals ; Dangers in the Realm of the Senses ; Viewing the Pain of Others with Aida Makoto ; Demystifying the Vagina with Rokudenashiko ; Silenced Females in Video Gaming ; Literature and Visual Culture -- 8. Epilogue. At the Beginning: The Penis ; At Present: Mapping Sexual and Gendered (J-)Humanity. |
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DRM-free. |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Japan.
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Sex role. |
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Japan. |
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Sex -- Japan.
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Sex. |
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Sexism -- Japan.
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Feminism -- Japan.
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Sexism. |
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Feminism. |
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HISTORY / Asia / General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender roles. |
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Sexism. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Frühstück, Sabine. Gender and sexuality in modern Japan Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108420655 (DLC) 2021044710 |
| ISBN |
9781108354967 electronic publication |
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1108354963 electronic publication |
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9781108420655 hardcover |
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9781108430722 paperback |
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