Emergent genders : living otherwise in Tokyo's pink economies
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Emergent genders : living otherwise in Tokyo's pink economies
（Perverse modernities）
Duke University Press, 2025
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, a renowned area in Tokyo for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games, such as danso (female-to-male crossdressing), and josō and otoko no ko-both referring to male-to-female crossdressing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where employees dress as a different gender, Ho shows how their owners, employees, and customers creatively innovate what she calls emergent genders-new practices, categories, and ways of being stemming from the simultaneous fracturing, contestations, and (re)imaginations of older forms of gender and sexual variance in Japan. Such emergent genders initiate new markets for alternative categories of expression and subjectivity to thrive in a popular cultural hub like Akihabara instead of Shinjuku Ni-chōme, Tokyo's gay and lesbian neighborhood. In rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality and d
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