Title: Cartographies of Desire
Subtitle: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950
First published: 1999
Description: "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Love in literature, History and criticism, Medical literature, Homosexuality, Homosexuality and literature, Legal literature, Homosexuality in literature, Homosexuality, history, Japan, social conditions, Desire in literature, Literary criticism, Asian
Places: Japan
LC classification: HQ76.3.J3 P35 1999