Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age

by McLelland, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780742537873
• ISBN10: 0742537870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-25
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the

Author Biography

Mark McLelland is research fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(14)
1 Heteronormativity on the Road to War	15	(44)
2 Japan's Postwar Perverse Culture	59	(42)
3 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother Girls	101	(26)
4 The Development of a Homo Subculture	127	(32)
5 Toward a Lesbian and Gay Consciousness	159	(34)
6 Transgender Lives	193	(28)
Afterword	221	(2)
Bibliography	223	(18)
Index	241	(6)
About the Author	247