Full Description
This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship, providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope, with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives, fields, and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, history, law, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, politics, and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields.
In this volume, Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in Japan, culture, gender studies, and beyond.
Contents
Contents Introduction: Gender and Culture in Japan Today Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton Part I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture 1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical Update Barbara Molony 2. Gender in Pre-Modern Japan Rajyashree Pandey 3. Debates in Japanese Feminisms Ayako Kano 4. Gender and Language Miyako Inoue 5. Masculinity Studies in Japan Emma E. Cook 6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in Japan S. P. F. Dale 7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Japan Jamie CoatesPart II: Home, Family, and the Private Sphere 8. Gender and the Koseki David Chapman 9. Attitudes to Marriage and Childbearing Ekaterina Hertog 10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary Japan Aya Ezawa 11. Intimacy in and Beyond the Family Allison Alexy 12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through Nostalgia Anna Vainio 13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and Childbirth Manami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu 14. Religion and Gender in Japan Yumi Murayama and Erica Baffelli Part III: Work, Politics, and The Public Sphere 15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining Problems Stephanie Assmann 16. Gender and the Workplace Helen Macnaughtan 17. Sex Work Toru Takeoka 18. Gender, Labour, and Migration Helena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer 19. Women in Electoral Politics Emma
