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.
Table of 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 Coates
Part 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 Dalton
20. Demanding Publics: Women and Activism
Chelsea Szendi Schieder
21. Lesbians and Queer Women in Japan
Jane Wallace
Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance
22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in Japan
Rosemary Overell
23. Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures
Jennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk
24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese History
Keiko Ikeda
25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial Arts
Oleg Benesch
26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan
Masafumi Monden
27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and Spaces
Emerald King
Part V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture
28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary Studies
Laura Clark and Lucy Fraser
29. Gender and Poetry
Andrew Campana
30. Gender, Manga, and Anime
Grace En-Yi Ting
31. Cuteness Studies and Japan
Joshua Paul Dale
32. Gender and Visual Culture
Gunhild Borggreen
33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in Japan
Sally McLaren
34. Representing Girls in Cinema
Kate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr
35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and Consumption
Alexandra Hambleton
Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies
36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing
Fusako Innami
37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the Ninkyō (Chivalrous) Genre Film
Isolde Standish
38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism
Akiko Sugawa-Shimada
39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"
Lynne Nakano
40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero System
Thomas Baudinette
