Recreating Japanese men
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Recreating Japanese men
University of California Press, c2011
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-331) and index
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Description
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. "Recreating Japanese Men" examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall Part I. Legacies of the Samurai 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan Anne Walthall 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir Luke Roberts 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushido. and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation Michele M. Mason 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die? Sabine Fruhstuck Part II. Marginal Men 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House Sakurai Yuki 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement Christopher Gerteis 7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko Susan Napier 8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men Tom Gill Part III. Bodies and Boundaries 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages Nagano Hiroko 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture Wolfram Manzenreiter 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Teresa A. Algoso 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future Ian Condry 13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan Jennifer Robertson Bibliography Contributors Index
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