Table of Contents

Introduction Queer Etiquette?: Advice Columns with a Difference Lesbian Bar Talk Cross-Dressing Speech: The 'Real' Womanhood of Men Performing the Performative in the Theater of the Queer Queen's Speech and the Playful Plundering of Women's Language Queen's Speech as a Private Matter

About the Author

HIDEKO ABE is Assistant Professor of Japanese in East Asian Studies Department at Colby College, USA.

Reviews

“Queer Japanese is a treasure trove of information about the language practices—and language attitudes—of sexual minority speakers of Japanese, an understudied group of speakers, who are critically important to a realistic understanding of the gendered qualities of Japanese … it is a book to which we will return again and again for its wealth of information and its enticing look at a world of “gendered” Japanese that has yet to be fully explored.” (Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 72 (2), May, 2013)