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Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

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Editors:
  1. Sirpa Salenius

    1. School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

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  • This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

  • Examines the ways in which gender can be depicted, perceived, and understood in Japanese popular culture

  • Generates new conversations about gender that move beyond nation

  • Challenges conventional assumptions associated not only with gender but also normativity

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

    • Sirpa Salenius
    Pages 1-27Open Access
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  3. From Dansō to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan

    • Michelle H. S. Ho
    Pages 29-59Open Access
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  4. “I’ll Create My Own Precedents”: Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo’s Yose Stages

    • Sarah Stark
    Pages 61-98Open Access
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  5. Not Quite There: Nike’s Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan’s Readiness

    • Yuko Itatsu
    Pages 99-122Open Access
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  6. Hybrid Masculinities? Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University Josō Contests

    • Ayumi Miyazaki
    Pages 123-149Open Access
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  7. The Widening Road: Constructions of Gay Japanese Men on YouTube

    • Gavin Furukawa
    Pages 151-174Open Access
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  8. Boys’ Love, Transmedia Storytelling, and LGBT Awareness in Contemporary Japan

    • Emiko Nozawa
    Pages 175-207Open Access
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  9. Creating the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Crossdressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity/Hyper Masculinity

    • Emerald L. King
    Pages 209-240Open Access
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  10. Engagements with Gender, Sexuality, and Authenticity in Cosplay

    • Lucy Glasspool
    Pages 241-274Open Access
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  11. Back Matter

    Pages 275-278
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About this book

This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars based in Finland, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The focus is, in particular, on gender performativity and non-binary or non-normative gender. The essays examine the ways in which gender can be depicted, perceived, and understood in Japanese popular culture. The work will be of interest to scholars working in gender studies, Asian studies, and popular culture. It will also act as a source text for higher education courses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. 




Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Sirpa Salenius

About the editor

Sirpa Salenius is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her other edited works include Race and Transatlantic Identities (2017), TransAtlantic Conversations (2017) and Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (2021).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

  • Book Subtitle: Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

  • Editors: Sirpa Salenius

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12942-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12941-4Published: 25 April 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12944-5Published: 25 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12942-1Published: 24 April 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Popular Culture , Media and Communication, Asian Culture

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