Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture

<p>This <i>Companion</i> is a comprehensive examination of the varied ways in which gender issues manifest throughout culture in Japan using a range of international perspectives to examine private and public constructions of identity as well as gender- and sexuality-inflected cultural production. </p><p></p><p>The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture features both new work and updated accounts of classic scholarship providing a go-to reference work for contemporary scholarship on gender in Japanese culture. The volume is interdisciplinary in scope with chapters drawing from a range of perspectives fields and disciplines including anthropology art history history law linguistics literature media and cultural studies politics and sociology. This reflects the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of the dual focal points of this volume—gender and culture—and the ways in which these themes infuse a range of disciplines and subfields. </p><p></p><p>In this volume Jennifer Coates Lucy Fraser and Mark Pendleton have brought together an essential guide to experiences of gender in Japanese culture today—perfect for students scholars and anyone else interested in Japan culture gender studies and beyond. </p>