Regimes of desire : young gay men, media, and masculinity in Tokyo / Thomas Baudinette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baudinette, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young gay men--Japan--Tokyo--Social conditions.

Young gay men.

Gay community--Japan--Tokyo.

Gay community.

Gay bars--Japan--Tokyo.

Gay bars.

Masculinity--Japan--Tokyo.

Masculinity.

Gay men in mass media.

Social conditions.

Shinjuku Ni-chōme (Tokyo, Japan)--Social conditions.

Shinjuku Ni-chōme (Tokyo, Japan).

Japan--Tokyo.

Physical Description:

x, 251 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Shinjuku Ni-chome is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city?s gay male community. Typically understood as a ?safe space? where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan?s largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, Regimes of Desire reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent the neighborhood?s many bars, the book reveals that the district is instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified, with Shinjuku Ni-chome?s bar culture privileging ?hard? masculine identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus excluding all those men who supposedly ?fail? to live up to these hegemonic gendered ideals.

Contents:

1 Shinjuku Ni-chome: Typing, Media, and the Commodification of Desire p. 32

2 Four Young Men's Transformative Engagements with Gay Media p. 64

3 The Curse of the Beautiful Boy: Privileging Hardness, Rejecting Femininity p. 91

4 Japanese Gay Pornography: Typing and the Fetishization of Heterosexuality p. 115

5 Gay Magazines: Typing, Lifestyles, and Gay Identity p. 144

6 Online Dating Services: Strategic Typing and the Limits of Agency p. 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472132645

0472132644

9780472038619

0472038613

OCLC:

1268135984