Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo

<p><i>Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo</i> investigates the novel “emotion business” of <i>dansō</i> escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression.</p><p>Fanasca documents the dreams ambitions and fears of young crossdresser escorts negotiating their identity with and within the Japanese society as well as those of crossdresser escorts’ clients: women looking for the perfect man and the opportunity to experience emotions. Combining anthropological sociological and gender studies theories with an ethnographic approach Fanasca argues that <i>dansō</i> crossdressing is the tool used by a sector of Japanese women to resist the heteronormative and patriarchal society and its expectations while reinventing themselves and their identities looking for self-actualization.</p><p><i>Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions Tokyo</i> is an interdisciplinary work which will interest both scholars and students of Japanese studies gender studies and anthropology.</p>