272 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising mainstream society, and sparked a vibrant period of activity that saw the establishment of an... Read more
Introduction Part 1: Producing Homo 1. Homo ‘Movings’ – Rentaikan and Shiminken 2. White Dreams: The Coming and Going of Porn Americana Part 2: Confessions - The Buntsuran and The Body 3. Eroto-Morphemic Revolutions of the Everyday 4. Age Differentiation and the Redemption of Men. Conclusion: Modernity and the Contradictions of Certainty
Biography
Jonathan D. Mackintosh is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His research interests include gender/sexuality in postwar Japan, masculinities and the body, and historical East Asian diasporic identities.
