Cartographies of Desire Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950

Name: Cartographies of Desire Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950
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ISBN: 9780520251656

ISBN-10: 0520251652

ISBN-13: 9780520251656

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Authors: Gregory M. Pflugfelder

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In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality, then turns to law, literature, newspaper articles, medical tracts, and other sources to discover Japanese attitudes toward sexuality over the centuries. During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/19/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 410
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note


Introduction



Authorizing Pleasure: Male-Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Popular Discourse


Finding the Way


Youths, Lovers, Brothers, and Others


Contextualized Pleasures


The Boundaries of Shudo


The End of the Way



Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Legal Discourse


Divine Pleasures/Devilish Pursuits


Outrageous Spectacles


Dangerous Liaisons


The View from Above



The Forbidden Chrysanthemum: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Legal Discourse


The Origins of Civilization


Anal Violations


Enacting the Obscene (Or, Napoleon in Japan)


Penile Servitude



Toward the Margins: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Popular Discourse


Forgetting Edo


Encompassing the Margins


Roughnecks and Smoothies


Beautiful Boys



Doctoring Love: Male-Male Sexuality in Medical Discourse from the Edo Pieriod Through the Early Twentieth Century


Healing Passions


The Nature of the Unnatural


Dichotomies of Love


Dissecting the Past, Diagnosing the Present



Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Discourse


The New Language of Love


The Pervert Speaks


Ero-Guro Nanshoku


War and Aftermath


Coda: Historicizing Male-Male Sexuality in Japan


Bibliography


Index