Queer Japanese Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices

by Abe, Hideko

• ISBN13: 9780230622364
• ISBN10: 0230622364
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Queer Japanesepresents a comprehensive picture of the ways Japanese sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, transgendered, and transsexual individuals) negotiate their lives through linguistic practice in various social contexts. Based on nearly ten years of fieldwork in Tokyo, Hideko Abe examinesa wide range of linguistic practices, including magazine advice columns, bars, television, seminars, text messaging on cell phones, the theater, and private homes. Ultimately, Abe reveals how gender and sexual identities are fluid, unstable, and negotiated.

Author Biography

Hideko Abe is Assistant Professor of Japanese in East Asian Studies Department at Colby College.  She is author of Speaking of Power: Professional Japanese Women and Their Speeches.  Her current research is on the speech of benshi (Japanese narrator for silent films).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Japanese Names and Words	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Queer Etiquette?: Advice Columns with a Difference	p. 17
Lesbian Bar Talk	p. 33
Cross-dressing Speech: The "Real" Womanhood of Men	p. 53
Performing the Performative in the Theater of the Queer	p. 77
Queen's Speech and the Playful Plundering of Women's Language	p. 97
Queen's Speech as a Private Matter	p. 135
Notes	p. 153
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 195
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