Recreating Japanese Men [electronic resource].
Frühstück, Sabine.
Walthall, Anne.
Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press,
c2011.
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines 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 t
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Legacies of the Samurai; 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan; 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir; 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushidö and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation; 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die?; Part IIMarginal Men; 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House; 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement
7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men; Part IIIBodies and Boundaries; 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages; 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture; 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan; 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future
13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in JapanBibliography; Contributors; Index
The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines 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 t
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Masculinity - Japan.
Masculinity -- Japan.
Men - Japan.
Men - Japan - Identity.
Men -- Japan -- Identity.
Men -- Japan.
Sex role - Japan.
Sex role -- Japan.
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