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27%OFFGregory M. Pflugfelder - Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 - 9780520251656 - V9780520251656
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Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950

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Description for Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 Paperback. A study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history. It explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. It opens with speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality. Num Pages: 411 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBTB; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 281 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
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), ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520251656
SKU
V9780520251656
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About Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Gregory M. Pflugfelder is Assistant Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University, and author of Seiji to daidokoro (Politics of the kitchen) (1986).

Reviews for Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950
"This is scholarship at its best. Gregory Pflugfelder' s wide-ranging study of male-male sexuality in Japan is brilliantly conceived and scrupulously argued. He shows how cultural constructs shaped the ways in which Japanese have conceptualized male-male sexuality from the Edo period through the early twentieth century. Wisely he takes as his subject discourse about sexuality, not sexual activity. He examines popular, ... Read more

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