The Routledge Companion To Gender And Japanese Culture (routledge Companions To Gender)

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. 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of figures 10 List of tables 11 Acknowledgements 12 Contributor biographies 13 Note on the romanization of Japanese 21 Introduction: gender and culture in Japan today 22 Part I Theorizing and historicizing gender and Japanese culture 30 1 Gendering modern Japanese history: a historiographical update 32 2 Gender in pre-modern Japan 43 3 Debates in Japanese feminism 52 4 Gender and language 61 5 Masculinity studies in Japan 71 6 Transgender, non-binary genders, and intersex in Japan 81 7 Gender and ethnicity in urban Japan 90 Part II Home, family, and the “private sphere” 102 8 Gender and the Koseki 104 9 Attitudes to marriage and childbearing 113 10 Family, inequality, and the work-family balance in contemporary Japan 127 11 Intimacy in and beyond the family 136 12 Rural gender construction and decline: negotiating risks through nostalgia 146 13 Changing folk cultures of pregnancy and childbirth 156 14 Religion and gender in Japan 167 Part III Work, politics, and the “public sphere” 176 15 Gender and the law: progress and remaining problems 178 16 Gender and the workplace 189 17 Sex Work 200 18 Gender, labour, and migration in Japan 210 19 Women in electoral politics 220 20 Demanding publics: women and activism 231 21 Lesbians and queer women in Japan 240 Part IV Cultures of play: leisure, music, and performance 250 22 Gender and musical subcultures in Japan 252 23 Gender in digital technologies and cultures 261 24 Women and physical culture in Japanese history 272 25 Myths of masculinity in the martial arts 282 26 The continuum of male beauty in contemporary Japan 291 27 Performing gender: cosplay and otaku cultures and spaces 300 Part V Cultural production: literature, cinema, and popular culture 310 28 Gender in Japanese literature and literary studies 312 29 Gender and poetry 323 30 Gender, manga, and anime 332 31 Cuteness studies and Japan 341 32 Gender and visual culture 352 33 Gender, media, and misogyny in Japan 361 34 Representing girls in cinema 372 35 Gendered desires: pornography and consumption 382 Part VI Texts and contexts: case studies 392 36 Gendered high and low culture in Japan: the transgressing flesh in Kawabata’s dance writing 394 37 Genre and gender: romantic friendships and the homosocial imperative in the ninkyō (chivalrous) genre film 403 38 Girls with arms and girls as arms in anime: the use of girls for “soft” militarism 412 39 Beyond the “parasite single” 420 40 Japanese gay men’s experiences of gender: negotiating the hetero system 429 Index 439 "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 sub-fields. 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"-- Provided by publisher