Cartographies of Desire
Subtitle: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780520209091
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Cultural studies; Gay studies (Gay men); Gender studies; Lesbian studies; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Japanese Literature; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Collections; Sociology; Japanese; Japan; Homosexuality; Asia - Japan; Gay Studies; History / General; Asian - Japanese; Asian; History; Homosexuality and literature; Legal literature
First sentence: For Japanese of the Edo period, "homosexuality" was an unfamiliar and perhaps unimaginable concept.