This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for increasing gay and lesbian visibility in western countries are appropriate to the social situation in Japan
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'This new study by Mark McLellend is a sparkling gem.' - Caroline Dale-Kobayashi
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Mark J. McLelland is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
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A well-written book,
By James C. Farrer (Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (Paperback)
This book provides a straight-forward and well-written account of male homosexual culture in Japan. I use it as one text among many in a college-level course taught in Japan and have had good results with classroom discussions. Unlike many other works in queer theory and gay and lesbian studies, it is the sort of book that undergraduate students can read, understand and critique. As a sociologist, I am somewhat troubled by the small sample size McLelland employs in his descriptions of male homosexual culture, but the sample does represent a variety of lifestyles that allows McLelland to dispell prevalent images of homosexual men. Moreover, much of the book is an insightful account of representations of male homosexuality in media culture, with an unusally clear sociological critique. Overall, I recommend the book for readers interested in contemporary male homosexuality in Japan.
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Necessary for Cultural Studies / Q.T. Studies,
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This review is from: Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities (Paperback)
This book provides extremely accessible material about a subject that is, by nature, highly inaccessible. His histories are clearly written and accurate. His analysis is as useful as it is interesting. Whether you are an old hand at theory and like to dirty your hands in cultural studies or a novice in the humanities with interests in the world in which you live, Mr. McLelland's book provides points of entry into a culture that is far away in distance and in essence that readers of all walks can appreciate. Very rarely can one say of scholarship that ir may provide something for everyone.
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Great book for beginners, advanced or just anyone interested on gay life in Japan,
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This is probably one of the best books written in simple English, yet maintaining its academic discourse style. I highly recommend this book for those interested to study gay life in Japan.
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The subject of this book is elusive as it is by no means clear who, exactly, is to be included in the concept of 'male homosexual' even in English; in Japanese, as will be described below, problems with terminology are even more serious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
okama bar, gay boom, foreign gay men, kira hikaru, private gay life, desiring men, genital interactions, gay websites, gay media, desiring individuals, gay magazines, gay organisations, gay pornography, straight counterparts, cohabiting relationship, gay press, foreign men, gay scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shinjuku Ni-chome, New York, Los Angeles, Fushimi Noriaki, North America, San Francisco, Ito Satoru, Nomura Sachiyo, Doi Takeo, Matsuoka George, Mishima Yukio, Murata Takehiro, Sarah Schulman, Ueno Chizuko, Britain's Gay Times, Ihara Saikaku, Jennifer Robertson, Judith Butler, Ochiai Emiko, Okama Report, Second World War, Torch Song Trilogy New!
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The subject of this book is elusive as it is by no means clear who, exactly, is to be included in the concept of 'male homosexual' even in English; in Japanese, as will be described below, problems with terminology are even more serious. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
okama bar, gay boom, foreign gay men, kira hikaru, private gay life, desiring men, genital interactions, gay websites, gay media, desiring individuals, gay magazines, gay organisations, gay pornography, straight counterparts, cohabiting relationship, gay press, foreign men, gay scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Shinjuku Ni-chome, New York, Los Angeles, Fushimi Noriaki, North America, San Francisco, Ito Satoru, Nomura Sachiyo, Doi Takeo, Matsuoka George, Mishima Yukio, Murata Takehiro, Sarah Schulman, Ueno Chizuko, Britain's Gay Times, Ihara Saikaku, Jennifer Robertson, Judith Butler, Ochiai Emiko, Okama Report, Second World War, Torch Song Trilogy New!
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- Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Helen Hardacre on page 63, and Back Matter
- The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by Susan Napier on page 86, and Back Matter
- Japanese Woman by Sumiko Iwao on page 91, and Back Matter
- Japan: The Childless Society?: The Crisis of Motherhood by Muriel Jolivet in Back Matter
- Middle East (Pt. 19) in Front Matter
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- Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations) by Mark McLelland on 4 pages
- Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia (Console-ing Passions) by Chris Berry on page 66, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Japanese Cybercultures (Asia's Transformations/Asia.com) by Nanette Gottlieb in Front Matter, page 140, and Back Matter
- Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China by Kam Louie in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) by James E. Roberson on page 36
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