Cartographies of Desire
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A01=Gregory M. Pflugfelder
american occupation
asian history
asian studies
Author_Gregory M. Pflugfelder
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cultural studies
early modern japan
east asia
edo period
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far east
gay
gay studies
gender
gender and sexuality
gender studies
history
history of sex
homosexuality
japan
japanese culture
japanese history
japanese studies
law
lgbt
lgbtq
lgbtqia
literary criticism
literary studies
literature
masculinity
medicine
meiji period
men
mlm
modern japan
nonfiction
popular culture
queer
queer theory
sexuality
Product details
- ISBN 9780520251656
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Mar 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Gregory M. Pflugfelder is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University, and author of Seiji to daidokoro (Politics of the kitchen) (1986).
