Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

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.

• 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

'This collection fills a major gap in the field of Japanese studies on transgressive genders and sexualities, and does so with insight, originality, and a fine sense of contemporary Japan's contradictions and dynamism.' - Karen Kelsky, Head, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign