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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 (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century.
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.
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 (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century.
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.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 410
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
19 March 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520251656
Format: Paperback
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"This is scholarship at its best. Gregory Pflugfelder' s wide-ranging study of male-male sexuality in Japan is brilliantly conceived and scrupulously argued. He shows how cultural constructs shaped the ways in which Japanese have conceptualized male-male sexuality from the Edo period through the early twentieth century. Wisely he takes as his subject discourse about sexuality, not sexual activity. He examines popular, legal, and medical dimensions of this discourse, noting the interaction among these domains and the impact on them of foreign ideas and larger changes in Japanese society."
Gregory M. Pflugfelder is Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History at Columbia University, and author of Seiji to daidokoro (Politics of the kitchen) (1986).
Acknowledgments
Note
Introduction
1. Authorizing Pleasure: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Popular Discourse
2. Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Legal Discourse
3. The Forbidden Chrysanthemum: Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Legal Discourse
4. Toward the Margins: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Popular Discourse
5. Doctoring Love: Male-Male Sexuality In Medical Discourse From the Edo Period Through the Early Twentieth Century
6. Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality In Early Twentieth-Century Popular Discourse
Bibliography
Index
Note
Introduction
1. Authorizing Pleasure: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Popular Discourse
2. Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality In Edo-Period Legal Discourse
3. The Forbidden Chrysanthemum: Male-Male Sexuality In Meiji Legal Discourse
4. Toward the Margins: Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Popular Discourse
5. Doctoring Love: Male-Male Sexuality In Medical Discourse From the Edo Period Through the Early Twentieth Century
6. Pleasures of the Perverse: Male-Male Sexuality In Early Twentieth-Century Popular Discourse
Bibliography
Index