Cartographies of Desire
Subtitle: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 19, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780520251656
Subjects: Gay studies (Gay men); Social history; Law; Sociology; Japan; Asia - Japan; Gay Studies; History / General; Gay & Lesbian; Reference; History; History and criticism; Homosexuality; Homosexuality and literature; Legal literature
First sentence: For Japanese of the Edo period, "homosexuality" was an unfamiliar and perhaps unimaginable concept.