Chapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Heteronormativity on the Road to War Chapter 5 Japan's Postwar Perverse Culture Chapter 6 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother Girls Chapter 7 The Development of a Homo Subculture Chapter 8 Toward a Lesbian and Gay Consciousness Chapter 9 Transgender Lives Chapter 10 Afterword Chapter 11 Bibliography
Mark McLelland is lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, at the University of Wollongong.
[This] book will serve as a welcome corrective to sparse earlier
publications that have overly generalized, homogenized and
singularized homosexuality and other queer experiences in Japan.
The book will be appreciated by students of Japan's post–World War
II era who have found it difficult so far to position Japan's queer
culture in an international setting.
*Asian Studies Review*
This book provides an accessible and readable introduction to
subcultures which have received little attention in
English-language scholarship (or in mainstream Japanese
scholarship), drawing on little-known archival sources and making
good use of more recent Internet sources. There is no comparable
study available.
*Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong*
A detailed and interesting account. McLelland first discusses the
emergence of the category of sexuality within Japanese discourse,
then looks at the vast and neglected field of magazines and other
periodicals that began to appear postwar.
*The Japan Times*
In this important new book on Japanese culture, McLelland argues
against using Western concepts when studying Japan, especially the
topics of this book, since Japan historically had no categories of
"heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual" or anti-gay oppression from
religion, medicine, or law. . . . Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
This is history of sexuality at its best, both insightful and
finely detailed. Mark McLelland has identified cultural phenomena
that might otherwise have been neglected, and has brought them
together in a sustained and compelling analysis of queer Japan.
*Peter Cryle, author ofThe Telling of the Act: Sexuality as
Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France*
Queer Japan from the PacificWar to the Internet Age is an important
accomplishment in the field of Japan studies. [It] will be
indispensable for anyone embarking on research on gender and
sexuality in Japan, and will also be valuable in undergraduate and
graduate courses to increase the diversity of our representations
and understandings of Japanese society.
*The Journal of Japanese Studies*
. . . a major conribution to Japan studies.Queer Japan will be
indispensible for anyone embaking on reserach on gender and
sexuality in Japan, and will also be valuable in undergraduate and
graduate courses to increase the diversity of our representations
and understandins of Japanese society.
*The Journal of Japanese Studies*
McLellands' Queer Japan is a serious contribution to queer
scholarship, blending as it does primary and secondary source
materials, well-covered territories, and new information for
Anglophone audiences. Overall, the book is well researched, well
written, and well edited and brings new information forward for
inspection.
*Journal of Asian Studies*
Meticulously researched and engagingly told. . . .McLelland's
accessibly style and knack for provocative translation ensure it
will appeal equally to those with a passing interest in gender
studies, Japan, or both.
*Justin Ellis, Japan Visitor Website*
A richly detailed history of sexual subcultures in postwar Japan.
Making use of an impressive array of materials culled from
journalistic accounts as well as literary, sexological, and social
science texts, McLelland provides Anglophone readers with a
wide-ranging introduction to the ways in which various forms of
nonnormative sexuality have been imagined and experience in Japan
from the 1920s to the present.
*Journal of the History of Sexuality, January 2010*
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