Reconfiguring sex, body and desire in Japanese modernity

Pandey, Rajyashree

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“…In addition, cross-dressing has been a prominent feature in Noh Theater since the fourteenth century and in Kabuki performances of the sixteenth century. The actors can be perceived as truly "performing" their gender, in particular the onnagata (men acting as women), similarly to the enigmatic geisha, a subject of many books, films, paintings, and prints, in which she embodies the aesthetics of eroticism (Pandey 2009). Such eroticism is also found in the artistic expression of Japanese poetry and narrative.…”

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Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

Salenius

2023

Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

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Abstract“What is gender, how is it produced and reproduced, what are its possibilities?” asks gender theorist Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999). This chapter examines the arbitrary nature of gender, the ways in which it has been, and is constructed, often tied to such concepts as biological sex, sexuality, masculinities, and femininities. Japan as a global trendsetter, with its flourishing popular culture, seems fertile ground for exploring gender as it provides various contexts and case studies for exploring gender-coding or expressing and experimenting with cross-gender identification. The chapters that follow are briefly introduced here, pointing out the ways in which they can be read to challenge conventional assumptions associated not only with gender but also with masculinities, femininities, sexuality, and normativity. Taking examples from Japanese popular culture, the chapters generate new transnational conversations about gender that move beyond any national or geographic specificity.

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Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

Salenius

2023

Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

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How Can Mini Cinemas in the Kansai Area Embrace Male-to-Female Cross-Dressers and Their Communities Under Urban Renewal and Gentrification?

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Miyata

2019

Sexuality & Culture

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When Sex and Power Collide: An Argument for Critical Sexuality Studies

Fahs

McClelland

2016

The Journal of Sex Research

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Attentive to the collision of sex and power, we add momentum to the ongoing development of the subfield of critical sexuality studies. We argue that this body of work is defined by its critical orientation toward the study of sexuality, along with a clear allegiance to critical modalities of thought, particularly feminist thought. Critical sexuality studies takes its cues from several other critical moments in related fields, including critical psychology, critical race theory, critical public health, and critical youth studies. Across these varied critical stances is a shared investment in examining how power and privilege operate, understanding the role of historical and epistemological violence in research, and generating new models and paradigms to guide empirical and theoretical research. With this guiding framework, we propose three central characteristics of critical sexuality studies: (a) conceptual analysis, with particular attention to how we define key terms and conceptually organize our research (e.g., attraction, sexually active, consent, agency, embodiment, sexual subjectivity); (b) attention to the material qualities of abject bodies, particularly bodies that are ignored, overlooked, or pushed out of bounds (e.g., viscous bodies, fat bodies, bodies in pain); and (c) heteronormativity and heterosexual privilege, particularly how assumptions about heterosexuality and heteronormativity circulate in sexuality research. Through these three critical practices, we argue that critical sexuality studies showcases how sex and power collide and recognizes (and tries to subvert) the various power imbalances that are deployed and replicated in sex research.

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Reconfiguring sex, body and desire in Japanese modernity

Cited by 4 publications

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Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

How Can Mini Cinemas in the Kansai Area Embrace Male-to-Female Cross-Dressers and Their Communities Under Urban Renewal and Gentrification?

When Sex and Power Collide: An Argument for Critical Sexuality Studies

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