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Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, cartea 93

Autor Thomas Baudinette
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2021
Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan’s largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, Regimes of Desire reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent the neighborhood’s many bars, the book reveals that the district is instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified, with Shinjuku Ni-chōme’s bar culture privileging “hard” masculine identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus excluding all those men who supposedly “fail” to live up to these hegemonic gendered ideals.

Through careful analysis of media such as pornographic videos, manga comics, lifestyle magazines, and online dating services, this book argues that the commercial imperatives of the Japanese gay media landscape and the bar culture of Shinjuku Ni-chōme act together to limit the agency of young gay men so as to better exploit them economically. Exploring the direct impacts of media consumption on the lives of four key informants who frequent the district’s gay bars in search of community, fun, and romance, Regimes of Desire reveals the complexity of Tokyo’s most popular “gay town” and intervenes in debates over the changing nature of masculinity in contemporary Japan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472132645
ISBN-10: 0472132644
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: 8 illustrations, 9 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies


Notă biografică

Thomas Baudinette is Lecturer in International Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments                                    
Introduction                                        
1. Shinjuku Ni-chōme: Typing, Media and the Commodification of Desire        
2. Four Young Men’s Transformative Engagements with Gay Media        
3. The Curse of the Beautiful Boy: Privileging Hardness, Rejecting Femininity    
4. Japanese Gay Pornography: Typing and the Fetishization of Heterosexuality    
5. Gay Magazines: Typing, Lifestyles and Gay Identity                
6. Online Dating Services: Strategic Typing and the Limits of Agency        
Conclusion: Regimes of Desire and Hope in Japan’s LGBT Boom            
Glossary of Terms                                    
References                                        
Notes    
Index        

 

Descriere

Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo’s “safe” nightlife district and in Japanese media