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>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>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> <p>Contents</p><p>Introduction: Gender and Culture in Japan Today</p><p><em>Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton</em></p><p>Part I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture</p><p>1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical Update</p><p><em>Barbara Molony</em> </p><p>2. Gender in Pre-Modern Japan</p><p><em>Rajyashree Pandey</em> </p><p>3. Debates in Japanese Feminisms</p><p><em>Ayako Kano</em> </p><p>4. Gender and Language</p><p><em>Miyako Inoue</em></p><p>5. Masculinity Studies in Japan</p><p><em>Emma E. Cook</em></p><p>6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in Japan</p><p><em>S. P. F. Dale</em></p><p>7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Japan</p><p><em>Jamie Coates</em> </p><p>Part II: Home, Family, and the "Private Sphere"</p><p>8. Gender and the Koseki </p><p><em>David Chapman</em></p><p>9. Attitudes to Marriage and Childbearing</p><p><em>Ekaterina Hertog</em></p><p>10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary Japan</p><p><em>Aya Ezawa</em></p><p>11. Intimacy in and Beyond the Family</p><p><em>Allison Alexy</em></p><p>12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through Nostalgia</p><p><em>Anna Vainio</em></p><p>13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and Childbirth</p><p><em>Manami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu</em></p><p>14. Religion and Gender in Japan</p><p><em>Yumi Murayama and Erica Baffelli</em></p><p>Part III: Work, Politics, and The "Public Sphere"</p><p>15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining Problems</p><p><em>Stephanie Assmann</em></p><p>16. Gender and the Workplace</p><p><em>Helen Macnaughtan</em> </p><p>17. Sex Work</p><p><em>Toru Takeoka</em> </p><p>18. Gender, Labour, and Migration</p><p><em>Helena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer</em></p><p>19. Women in Electoral Politics</p><p><em>Emma Dalton</em></p><p>20. Demanding Publics: Women and Activism</p><p><em>Chelsea Szendi Schieder</em></p><p>21. Lesbians and Queer Women in Japan</p><p><em>Jane Wallace</em> </p><p>Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance</p><p>22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in Japan</p><p><em>Rosemary Overell</em></p><p>23. Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures</p><p><em>Jennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk</em></p><p>24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese History</p><p><em>Keiko Ikeda</em> </p><p>25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial Arts</p><p><em>Oleg Benesch</em></p><p>26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan<b> </b></p><p><em>Masafumi Monden</em> </p><p>27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and Spaces</p><p><em>Emerald King</em></p><p>Part V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture</p><p>28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary Studies</p><p><em>Laura Clark and Lucy Fraser</em></p><p>29. Gender and Poetry</p><p><em>Andrew Campana</em></p><p>30. Gender, Manga, and Anime </p><p><em>Grace En-Yi Ting</em></p><p>31. Cuteness Studies and Japan</p><p><em>Joshua Paul Dale</em> </p><p>32. Gender and Visual Culture</p><p><em>Gunhild Borggreen</em></p><p>33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in Japan</p><p><em>Sally McLaren</em></p><p>34. Representing Girls in Cinema</p><p><em>Kate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr</em></p><p>35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and Consumption</p><p><em>Alexandra Hambleton</em> </p><p>Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies</p><p>36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing </p><p><em>Fusako Innami</em></p><p>37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the <i>Ninkyō </i>(Chivalrous) Genre Film</p><p><em>Isolde Standish</em></p><p>38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism </p><p><em>Akiko Sugawa-Shimada</em></p><p>39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"</p><p><em>Lynne Nakano</em></p><p>40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero System</p><p><em>Thomas Baudinette</em></p>