The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-08226-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 764 g

Reihe: Routledge Companions to Gender

This Companion is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan, using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity, as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship, providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope, with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives, fields, and disciplines, including anthropology, art history, history, law, linguistics, literature, media and cultural studies, politics, and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields.

In this volume, Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students, scholars, and anyone else interested in Japan, culture, gender studies, and beyond.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coates, Jennifer

Fraser, Lucy

Pendleton, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Introduction: Gender and Culture in Japan Today Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton Part I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture 1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical Update Barbara Molony 2. Gender in Pre-Modern Japan Rajyashree Pandey 3. Debates in Japanese Feminisms Ayako Kano 4. Gender and Language Miyako Inoue 5. Masculinity Studies in Japan Emma E. Cook 6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in Japan S. P. F. Dale 7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Japan Jamie Coates Part II: Home, Family, and the Private Sphere 8. Gender and the Koseki David Chapman 9. Attitudes to Marriage and Childbearing Ekaterina Hertog 10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary Japan Aya Ezawa 11. Intimacy in and Beyond the Family Allison Alexy 12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through Nostalgia Anna Vainio 13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and Childbirth Manami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu 14. Religion and Gender in Japan Yumi Murayama and Erica Baffelli Part III: Work, Politics, and The Public Sphere 15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining Problems Stephanie Assmann 16. Gender and the Workplace Helen Macnaughtan 17. Sex Work Toru Takeoka 18. Gender, Labour, and Migration Helena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer 19. Women in Electoral Politics Emma

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (2016), as well as journal articles and book chapters on cinema and audiences in postwar and contemporary Japan. Her current ethnographic research project focuses on early postwar film audiences in Japan.

Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches Japanese literature, popular culture, and language. She researches fairy tale studies in Japanese and English, with particular interests in ideas of gender and animals in retellings of folktales and traditional stories. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (2017). She has translated short stories by writers such as Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki and literary and cultural studies criticism by scholars such as Kan Satoko, Fujimoto Yukari, and Honda Masuko.

Mark Pendleton is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. A cultural and social historian by training, his research interests lie in modern and contemporary Japan, East Asian memory studies, and transnational histories of gender and sexuality. He has published in a number of academic journals including Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Review, and has contributed book chapters on topics related to historical justice and memory, transnational sexual politics in East Asia, and Japanese dark tourism. He is a member of the editorial committee of leading history journal History Workshop Journal.