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Overview"The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. ""Recreating Japanese Men"" examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sabine Frühstück , Anne WalthallPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 20 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780520267374ISBN 10: 0520267370 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 04 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall Part I. Legacies of the Samurai 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan Anne Walthall 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir Luke Roberts 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushido. and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation Michele M. Mason 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die? Sabine Fruhstuck Part II. Marginal Men 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House Sakurai Yuki 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement Christopher Gerteis 7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko Susan Napier 8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men Tom Gill Part III. Bodies and Boundaries 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages Nagano Hiroko 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture Wolfram Manzenreiter 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Teresa A. Algoso 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future Ian Condry 13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan Jennifer Robertson Bibliography Contributors IndexReviews"""Fascinating, clearly written."" -- Michael Lewis Monumenta Nipponica 20120101" Fascinating, clearly written. -- Michael Lewis Monumenta Nipponica 20120101 Author InformationSabine Fruhstuck is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army and Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, both from UC Press. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (UC Press) and author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, among others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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