The work of gender : service, performance and fantasy in contemporary Japan /

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Imprint:	Copenhagen, Denmark : NIAS Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Gendering Asia ; 16 Gendering Asia ; no. 16.
Subject:	Gender identity -- Japan. Sex role -- Japan. Sex -- Japan. Gender identity. Sex. Sex role. Japan.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12778631

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Other authors / contributors:	Hansen, Gitte Marianne, editor. Gygi, Fabio, editor. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
ISBN:	9788776943110 8776943119 9788776943127 8776943127
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Gender and sexuality in Japan has long been a field of academic study, with gender mainly being examined either as masculinities, femininities or as deviating sexualities. In recent years, however, widespread interest in manga, anime and cosplay among the world's youth has aroused popular interest in the Japanese approach to gender and sexuality. In a sense, this engaging volume brings these two worlds together. It builds on earlier scholarly work and discusses normative and non-normative gender and sexualities in one volume. The chapters deftly bring together and engage with theories of gender presentation, performance and performativity. However, they are also solid ethnographic studies, extensively researched and clearly argued. Through careful attention to lived realities, they allow readers to understand not only how gender is constructed and commodified in contemporary Japan but also how it is presented and performed in different contexts. At the same time, youth culture resonates through the volume, which is mainly written by early-career scholars with a largely undergraduate and postgraduate readership in mind. With compelling studies, evocatively presented, this volume may well go on to become an important resource on gender and sexuality in Japan. Moreover, with its many insights into how ethnographic methodologies might best be employed, the book has much to offer students and scholars working outside of Japanese studies as well." --

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Foreword: Reflections By a Culturally Incompetent Customer
Acknowledgements
1. Gender as Work
2. Serving Gender: Performing Gender Roles at a Gay Bar in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ni-chome
3. (Re)searching (for) Identities: Crossdressed Ethnography in a Danso Escort Company
4. Professional Amateurs: Authenticity and Sex Work in a 'Delivery Health' Shop
5. The Coin-Operated Boyfriend: Recognition and Intimacy as Commodities in a Japanese Josei-make Adult Video Fan Community
6. Intimacies of Exposure: Public Space, Gendered Presence and Performance at a Tokyo Train Station
7. I Sing the Body Contingent: Transition as Gender-Work in Contemporary Japan
Epilogue: Gender, Substance, Fantasy
Colour figures
Index

The work of gender : service, performance and fantasy in contemporary Japan /

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