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  • Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age

    by Mark McLelland ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Boys Love Manga and Beyond

    History, Culture, and Community in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker ...
    Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation.In recent decades, “Boys Love” ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan

    Cultural Myths and Social Realities

    by Mark J. McLelland ...
    This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Vera Mackie ...
    This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations in constructions of sexuality in highly developed, developing and emerging societies and economies ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Internationalizing Internet Studies

    Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural, social, national, and regional settings. This is the first book-length account that not only provides a ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Japanese Cybercultures

    Edited by Nanette Gottlieb, Mark McLelland ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
    Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use. It examines the crucial questions: * how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The End of Cool Japan

    Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture

    Edited by Mark McLelland ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those teaching and researching about Japan. Despite young people’s enthusiasm for Japanese popular ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Queer Voices from Japan

    First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities

    by Oguiya Afu, Sunagawa Hideki, Sawbe Hitomi, Toyama Hitomi, Hirano Hiroaki, Sugita Hitoshi, Akira the Hustler, Mitsuhashi Junko, Kabiya Kazuhiko, Oikawa Kenji, Noriko Kohashi, Ochiya Kumiko, Masako Izumo Marou, Hisada Megumi, Saijo Michio, Hara Minako, Ranko, Otoki, Namiki Sansaku, Fujii Seiji, Kawakami Seiko, Morihara Taichi, Fujio Takafumi, Kondo Takashi, Otsuka Takashi, Yamamoto Tatsuo, Ujiya Tomiyoshi, Setoguchi Torao, Ueshima Tsugi, Miwa Yoko, Tsuzura Yoshiko, Yoshimura Yutaka ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These essays trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Edges of the Rainbow

    LGBTQ Japan

    by Michel Delsol, Haruku Shinozaki ...
    Series series Diverse Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Photobook Series
    An intimate photographic glimpse into the queer world behind the closed doors of modern Japanese societyThe LGBTQ community in Japan has faced its challenges. Even as some religious and warrior orders have a long and recognized tradition of same-sex love, to be considered different, to be “the nail that sticks out,” makes coming out difficult.Despite the conservative strain within Japanese society ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Postmodern, Feminist and Postcolonial Currents in Contemporary Japanese Culture

    A Reading of Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin

    by Fuminobu Murakami ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this Euro-American theory by looking back on it from the perspective of Japanese literary work.Presenting ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD