1st Edition
Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo
By Marta Fanasca
Copyright 2024
214 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo investigates the novel “emotion business” of dansō escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression.
Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions and fears of young crossdresser escorts negotiating their identity with and within the... Read more
Introduction, 1. Gender Identity, Performativity and Fantasy: The Case of Dansō Escorting, 2. Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man: Working with Dansō in Akihabara, 3. Who are Dansō?, 4. Identity and Human Relationships, 5. The Customers' Perspective 6. Working with Emotions – The Negative Aspects of the Business, Conclusions
Biography
Marta Fanasca is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Bologna and a Research Fellow at KU Leuven. For her research, she worked herself as a dansō (FtM crossdressing) escort. Her articles have appeared in Asian Anthropology and Girlhood Studies. She is also a freelance translator from Japanese.
