Recreating Japanese men / edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frühstück, Sabine, editor.

Walthall, Anne, editor.

Series:

Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Men--Japan--Identity.

Men.

Masculinity--Japan.

Masculinity.

Men--Japan.

Sex role--Japan.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 347 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction. Interrogating Men and Masculinities

Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan

Name and Honor. A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir

Empowering the Would-be Warrior Bushidō and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation

After Heroism. Must Real Soldiers Die?

Perpetual Dependency. The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House

Losing the Union Man. Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement

Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko

Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan. The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men

Collective Maturation. The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages

Climbing Walls. Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture

Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Love Revolution. Anime, Masculinity, and the Future

Gendering Robots. Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613278500

9781283278508

1283278502

9780520950320

0520950321

OCLC:

754581665