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Gender and sexuality in modern Japan / Sabine Frühstück, University of California at Santa Barbara.

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"On 18 December 2019, a young woman by the name of Itō Shiori stepped outside the Tokyo District Court holding up a banner reading "victory" (shōso). The court had ruled that Itō had been assaulted by Yamaguchi Noriyuki, a prominent journalist, who would be punished for his crime....

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Frühstück, Sabine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:New approaches to Asian history.
Subjects:
Sex role > Japan.
Sex > Japan.
Sexism > Japan.
Feminism > Japan.
Feminism.
Sex.
Sex role.
Sexism.
Japan.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • What Is Modern Japan?
  • Families and Households
  • Codes and Laws
  • Words and Concepts
  • Frames and Lenses, or How to Read This Book
  • The Chapters
  • 1 Building the Nation and Modern Manhood
  • Measuring Hegemonic Masculinity
  • Is the Company Man a Real Man?
  • Manning the Changing Tables
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 2 Controlling Reproduction and Motherhood
  • Revolutionizing Birth
  • Contracepting Imperialism
  • Why Have Babies?
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 3 Redefining Womanhoods
  • Roles and Rights
  • New Women, Modern Girls
  • Suffrage and Pacifism
  • Women's Liberation: Uman Ribu
  • Mainstreaming Feminism and Backlash
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 4 Sex at War
  • Systemic Military Sexual Violence
  • Amnesia and Legacies
  • Global Commemorations
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 5 The Politics of Sexual Labor
  • Liberating Prostitutes
  • Renewing the Oldest Profession
  • The Work of Sex Today
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 6 Queer Identities and Activisms
  • Culture and Knowledge
  • Queer Spaces
  • Prohibitions and Rights
  • Does Trans Transform Society?
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 7 Sexing Visual Culture
  • Laughing at Semi-Naked Truths in Erotic Woodblock Prints
  • Injurious to Modern Morals
  • Dangers in the Realm of the Senses
  • Viewing the Pain of Others with Aida Makoto
  • Demystifying the Vagina with Rokudenashiko
  • Silenced Females in Video Gaming
  • Literature and Visual Culture
  • 8 Epilogue
  • At the Beginning: The Penis
  • At Present: Mapping Sexual and Gendered (J-)Humanity
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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