Research Catalog

Title

Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse, 1600-1950 / Gregory M. Pflugfelder.

Author

Pflugfelder, Gregory M., 1959-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007], ©1999.

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Details

Description

xi, 399 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation.Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality, then turns to law, literature, newspaper articles, medical tracts, and other sources to discover Japanese attitudes toward sexuality over the centuries. During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century.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." -- Publisher's description.

Subjects

• Legal literature
• Medical literature
• Homosexuality
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Japan
• Love in literature
• Homosexuality in literature
• Legal literature > Japan > History and criticism
• Medical literature > Japan > History and criticism
• Legal literature > Japan > History
• Homosexuality and literature > Japan
• Homosexuality > Japan > History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• "First paperback printing 2007"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-369) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Authorizing pleasure: male-male sexuality in Edo-period popular discourse -- Policing the perisexual: male-male sexuality in Edo-period legal discourse -- The forbidden chrysanthemum: male-male sexuality in Meiji legal discourse -- Toward the margins: male-male sexuality in Meiji popular discourse -- Doctoring love: male-male sexuality in medial discourse from the Edo period through the early twentieth century -- Pleasures of the perverse: male-male sexuality in early twentieth-century popular discourse.

ISBN

• 0520251652
• 9780520251656

OCLC

• 146161336
• SCSB-10634495

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library