Gender in Japanese Popular Culture: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

ISBN-13: 9783031129445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 332 str.

Sirpa Salenius

Opis

This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars based in Finland, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The focus is, in particular, on gender performativity and non-binary or non-normative gender. The essays examine the ways in which gender can be depicted, perceived, and understood in Japanese popular culture. The work will be of interest to scholars working in gender studies, Asian studies, and popular culture. It will also act as a source text for higher education courses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. 

Spis treści

1.     Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (words: 9 370)

2.     From dansō to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan

Michelle H.S. Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore (words: 11 303)

3.     “I’ll create my own precedents”: Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo’s yose Stages.

Sarah Stark, University of Ghent, Belgium (words: 12 554)

4.     Not Quite There: Nike’s Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan’s Readiness

Yuko Itatsu, University of Tokyo, Japan (words: 8 894)

5.     Hybrid Masculinities?: Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University josō Contests Ayumi Miyazaki, Japan Women’s University, International Christian University, Japan (words: 9 834)

6.     The Widening Road: Constructions of Gay Japanese Men on YouTube

Gavin Furukawa, Sophia University, Japan (words: 7 824)

7.     Boys’ Love, Transmedia Storytelling, and LGBT Awareness in Contemporary Japan

Emiko Nozawa, Chuo University, Japan (words: 10 558)

8.     Creating the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Cross-Dressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity and Hyper Masculinity

Emerald King, University of Tasmania, Australia (words: 10 030)

9.     Engagements with Gender, Sexuality and Authenticity in Cosplay

Lucy Glasspool, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan (words: 12 589)

O autorze

Sirpa Salenius is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her other edited works include Race and Transatlantic Identities (2017), TransAtlantic Conversations (2017) and Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (2021).

Blurb

This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars, proposing different ways to think about gender, sexuality, and masculinities/femininities. By using case studies from Japanese popular culture, the authors contribute to the ongoing transnational discussion on gender performativity, examining ways in which gender may be constructed and contested. The multidisciplinary work will be of interest to scholars working in gender studies, Asian studies, and popular culture. It will also act as a source text for higher education courses in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Sirpa Salenius is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her other edited works include Race and Transatlantic Identities (2017), TransAtlantic Conversations (2017) and Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (2021).