Cartographies of Desire

"In this study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of popular culture, law, and medicine from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation." "This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: For Japanese of the Edo period, "homosexuality" was an unfamiliar and perhaps unimaginable concept.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

University of California Press

Editions

2

Pages

410

ISBN

9780520209091

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