Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan
by Mackintosh; Jonathan D.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-11-09
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
This book examines the history of the relationship between male homosexuality and conceptions of manliness in postwar Japan. It provides a detailed account of the formative years of the homo magazine genre in the 1970s, and explores its evolution in subsequent years, analyzing key issues including homophobia; gay liberation; male-male sex, love and friendship; the masculine body; and manly identity.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Note on Japanese names and translation | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Producing homo | p. 25 |
| Homo 'movings': Rentaikan and Shiminken | p. 43 |
| White dreams: the coming and going of porn Americana | p. 94 |
| Confessions: the buntsuran and the body | p. 135 |
| Eroto-morphemic revolutions of the everyday | p. 149 |
| Age differentiation and the redemption of men | p. 184 |
| Conclusion: modernity and the contradictions of certainty | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Bibliography | p. 240 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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