PFLUGFELDER Cartographies Of Desire Male-Male Sexuality In Japanese Discourse HC
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Title: Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950
Author: Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-10: 0520209095
ISBN-13: 9780520209091
Publication Year: 2000
Number of Pages: 410
Product Notes: 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.
From the Inside Flap: "A remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization. Cartographies complements and, frankly, exceeds any of the English language monographs on similar topics that precede it, and it represents significant contributions to several fields outside of East Asian history, including literature, gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and cultural studies."—Earl Jackson Jr., author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation and Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany
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