Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse, 1600-1950 / [electronic resource]
Pflugfelder, Gregory M.,1959-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c1999.
"In this study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of popular culture, law, and medicine from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation."--BOOK JACKET. "This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-369) and index.
Authorizing pleasure: male-male sexuality in Edo-period popular discourse -- Policing the perisexual: male-male sexuality in Edo-period legal discourse -- The forbidden chrysanthemum: male-male sexuality in Meiji legal discourse -- Toward the margins: male-male sexuality in Meiji popular discourse -- Doctoring love: male-male sexuality in medical discourse from the Edo period through the early twentieth century -- Pleasures of the perverse: male-male sexuality in early twentieth-century popular discourse.
"In this study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of popular culture, law, and medicine from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation."--BOOK JACKET. "This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies."--Jacket.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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