Gender fluidity in Japanese arts and culture : critical essays /

"Japan is often perceived as a land of custom, convention, and conservatism. While much of Japan's population does uphold tradition, the nation also has a history of confronting conformity when it comes to gender representation in the arts. Revealed in the pages of the famous Tosa Nikki, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Conrad, Dean (Editor), Hirano, Sayuri, 1970- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2025]
Subjects:	Gender identity in art. Gender identity > Japan. Arts and society > Japan. Arts, Japanese > Themes, motives. Identité de genre dans l'art. Identité de genre > Japon. Arts et société > Japon. Arts japonais > Thèmes, motifs.

Table of Contents:

Trans bodies and gender fluid fatherhood in contemporary Japanese literature / Letizia Guarini
Transcending the traditional : developments in contemporary kabuki / Helen S.E. Parker
Female kings and feminized warships : moefication in the Fate and Kantai collection media mixes / William Schrage.
Confronting conformity
(En)gendering literature : Tosa Nikki, or where writing begins / Robert Ono
Disturbing gender norms : Yasunari Kawabata's Otome no Minato and translations of Torikaebaya Monogatari / Masaho Kumazawa
Almost transparent blues : postwar years, deconstruction of the male self, and the transformations of gender relations in the cultures of the 1970s / Yuji Kato
Trans bodies and gender fluid fatherhood in contemporary Japanese literature / Letizia Guarini
Transcending the traditional : developments in contemporary kabuki / Helen S.E. Parker
Otokoyaku in drag : moving beyond a gender role binary in the Takarazuka Revue / Zuzanna Baraniak-Hirata
A "beautiful woman in men's clothes" : Takiko Mizunoe and the development of cross-dressing in pre-war Japanese entertainment / Michael Furmanovsky
The politics of trans visibility in Japanese film : Close-Knit and Midnight Swan / Naoki Kambe
Female kings and feminized warships : moefication in the Fate and Kantai Collection media mixes / William Schrage
Tokyo drag : contemporary perspectives / Nina Ždanovič
Gender beyond boundaries : the fluid photography of Ayano Sudo / Federica Cavazzuti.