ISBN:
0700717021
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 184 p)
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan
DDC:
305.48/9664/0952
Keywords:
Lesbians
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Japan ; Social life and customs
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Lesbians ; Japan
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Electronic books
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Japan Social life and customs
Abstract:
This is the first academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japan and opens up a more inclusive representation of cultural and sexual diversity across women's studies and Japanese studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 A moment in time; Introduction; Inside-outside circles of silence; Living the research; Fragmented selves/fragmented hierarchies; 2 Lesbian in/visibility in Japan: Passing into the present; Male same-sex practices and the introduction of 'homosexuality' into Japan; The recognition of female same-sex desire in Japanese society; The Takarazuka Revue; 'Tachi' or 'Neko': Which one are you?; 3 Identifying the lesbian in contemporary Japan; Tolerance, containment and the 'homosexual' body
Description / Table of Contents:
Heterosexism, feminism and the emergence of lesbian spacesDefining terms; Searching for information from the 1960s to the 1990s; Sex as taboo; 4 Negotiating boundaries; Implications for 'coming out' in Japan; Illusive bodies; Per-forming family: uchi no kazoku; 5 What's in a family?; The social status of 'motherhood' in Japan; Historicising the notion of 'Japanese motherhood'; Gender, sexuality and 'race' in the Japanese media; Media representations of 'the Japanese family'; 6 Consolidating heteronormative practices; Familial notions of the state, femininity and sexuality in Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
Employment and housingDivorce and child custody; Subverting invisibility: adoption; 7 Re-creating families; The language of 'kazoku' among lesbians; Familying: kazoku yatte-imasu; 8 Female friendships and the nature of reciprocity; In-different friendships; Lesbian friendships; Lesbian mothers; 9 Cultures and communities: the necessity for new possibilities; Embodied spaces or lesbian culture? Both at once!; Lesbian spaces open up; Lesbian weekends; 10 Bodies of knowledge; Lesbian subjectivity in Japanese society: emerging voices; Bodies of knowledge: concluding remarks; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [158]-177) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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