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Recreating Japanese Men
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2011
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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men’s sense of gender as authentic and stable.
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Contributor: Sabine Frühstück
Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army and Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, both from UC Press. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (UC Press) and author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, among others.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Interrogating Men and Masculinities
1 - Part I. Legacies of the Samurai
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1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan
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2. Name and Honor. A Merchant’s Seventeenth-Century Memoir
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3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior Bushidō and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation
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4. After Heroism. Must Real Soldiers Die?
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5. Perpetual Dependency. The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House
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6. Losing the Union Man. Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement
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7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko
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8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan. The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men
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9. Collective Maturation. The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages
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10. Climbing Walls. Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture
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11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
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12. Love Revolution. Anime, Masculinity, and the Future
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13. Gendering Robots. Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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July 22, 2019
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9780520950320
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360
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Keywords for this book
gender roles; japanese history; manhood; asia scholars; historians; sociologists; cultural historians; anthropologists; early modern japan; japan; japanese culture; asian studies; essay collection; nonfiction essays; contemporary japan; behavioral studies; traditional roles; japanese society; samurai; mens issues; mens roles; japanese men; gender identity; geeks; shoguns; hermaphrodites; historical; generational; social science; masculinity; anthropology; gender studies
