Recreating Japanese Men
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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.Recreating Japanese Menexamines 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.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- (Editors)
Anne Walthall
Sabine Frühstück - Language
- English
- Series
- Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
- ISBN
- 9780520267374
- Release date
- 2011
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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.Recreating Japanese Menexa...