Beschreibung:
Introduction : gender and culture in Japan today -- Part I. Theorizing and historicizing gender and Japanese culture. Gendering modern Japanese history : a historiographical update -- Gender in pre-modern Japan -- Debates in Japanese feminism -- Gender and language -- Masculinity studies in Japan -- Transgender, non-binary genders, and intersex in Japan -- Gender and ethnicity in urban Japan -- Part II. Home, family, and the private sphere. Gender and the Koseki -- Attitudes to marriage and childbearing -- Family, inequality, and the work-family balance in contemporary Japan -- Intimacy in and beyond the family -- Rural gender construction and decline : negotiating risks through nostalgia -- Changing folk cultures of pregnancy and childbirth -- Religion and gender in Japan -- Part III. Work, politics, and the public sphere. Gender and the law : progress and remaining problems -- Gender and the workplace -- Sex work -- Gender, labour, and migration in Japan -- Women in electoral politics -- Demanding publics : women and activism -- Lesbians and queer women in Japan -- Part IV. Cultures of play : leisure, music, and performance. Gender and musical subcultures in Japan -- Gender in digital technologies and cultures -- Women and physical culture in Japanese history -- Myths of masculinity in the martial arts -- The continuum of male beauty in contemporary Japan -- Performing gender : cosplay and otaku cultures and spaces -- Part V. Cultural production : literature, cinema, and popular cultures. Gender in Japanese literature and literary studies -- Gender and poetry -- Gender, manga, and anime -- Cuteness studies and Japan -- Gender and visual culture -- Gender, media, and misogyny in Japan -- Representing girls in cinema -- Gendered desires : pornography and consumption -- Part VI. Texts and contexts : case studies. Gendered high and low culture in Japan : the transgressing flesh in Kawabata's dance writing -- Genre and gender : romantic friendships and the homosocial imperative in the ninkyō (chivalrous) genre film -- Girls with arms and girls as arms in anime : the use of girls for soft militarism -- Beyond the parasite single -- Japanese gay men's experiences of gender : negotiating the hetero system.