The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture

Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (2016), as well as journal articles and book chapters on cinema and audiences in postwar and contemporary Japan. Her current ethnographic research project focuses on early postwar film audiences in Japan. Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches Japanese literature, popular culture, and language. She researches fairy tale studies in Japanese and English, with particular interests in ideas of gender and animals in retellings of folktales and traditional stories. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (2017). She has translated short stories by writers such as Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki and literary and cultural studies criticism by scholars such as Kan Satoko, Fujimoto Yukari, and Honda Masuko. Mark Pendleton is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. A cultural and social historian by training, his research interests lie in modern and contemporary Japan, East Asian memory studies, and transnational histories of gender and sexuality. He has published in a number of academic journals including Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Review , and has contributed book chapters on topics related to historical justice and memory, transnational sexual politics in East Asia, and Japanese dark tourism. He is a member of the editorial committee of leading history journal History Workshop Journal .

Contents



Introduction: Gender and Culture in Japan Today

Jennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton



Part I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture

1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical Update

Barbara Molony

2. Gender in Pre-Modern Japan

Rajyashree Pandey

3. Debates in Japanese Feminisms

Ayako Kano

4. Gender and Language

Miyako Inoue

5. Masculinity Studies in Japan

Emma E. Cook

6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in Japan

S. P. F. Dale

7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban Japan

Jamie Coates



Part II: Home, Family, and the "Private Sphere"

8. Gender and the Koseki

David Chapman

9. Attitudes to Marriage and Childbearing

Ekaterina Hertog

10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary Japan

Aya Ezawa

11. Intimacy in and Beyond the Family

Allison Alexy

12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through Nostalgia

Anna Vainio

13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and Childbirth

Manami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu

14. Religion and Gender in Japan

Yumi Murayama and Erica Baffelli



Part III: Work, Politics, and The "Public Sphere"

15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining Problems

Stephanie Assmann

16. Gender and the Workplace

Helen Macnaughtan

17. Sex Work

Toru Takeoka

18. Gender, Labour, and Migration

Helena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer

19. Women in Electoral Politics

Emma Dalton

20. Demanding Publics: Women and Activism

Chelsea Szendi Schieder

21. Lesbians and Queer Women in Japan

Jane Wallace



Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance

22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in Japan

Rosemary Overell

23. Gender in Digital Technologies and Cultures

Jennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk

24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese History

Keiko Ikeda

25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial Arts

Oleg Benesch

26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan

Masafumi Monden

27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and Spaces

Emerald King



Part V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture

28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary Studies

Laura Clark and Lucy Fraser

29. Gender and Poetry

Andrew Campana

30. Gender, Manga, and Anime

Grace En-Yi Ting

31. Cuteness Studies and Japan

Joshua Paul Dale

32. Gender and Visual Culture

Gunhild Borggreen

33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in Japan

Sally McLaren

34. Representing Girls in Cinema

Kate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr

35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and Consumption

Alexandra Hambleton



Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies

36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing

Fusako Innami

37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the Ninkyo (Chivalrous) Genre Film

Isolde Standish

38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism

Akiko Sugawa-Shimada

39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"

Lynne Nakano

40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero System

Thomas Baudinette