{"product_id":"recreating-japanese-men-volume-20-paperback","title":"Recreating Japanese Men: Volume 20 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSabine Fr?st?k\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnne Walthall\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. \u003ci\u003eRecreating Japanese Men\u003c\/i\u003e examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecreating Japanese Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful and invaluable book. Its interdisciplinary mix of essays opens the door to a new world of scholarship on masculinity in Japan. --David L. Howell, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By considering a wide variety of alternative masculinities throughout Japanese history, these essays reveal the tensions, conflicts and overlapping between competing masculine and feminine ideals and practices in surprising ways.\" --Robert A. Nye, Oregon State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This gallery of striking but also subtle images of Japanese masculinity both reinforces old and reveals new historical understandings of Japanese political and military institutions, social divisions, and cultural anxieties. Essential reading in both Japan and masculinity studies.\" --Gary Cross, author of \u003ci\u003eMen to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSabine Fr?st?k\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eColonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan\u003c\/i\u003e, both from UC Press. \u003cb\u003eAnne Walthall\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eServants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press) and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47408717496498,"sku":"9780520267381","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d7600b3a5ccd73ff4383b54e34248e5d.webp?v=1778251340","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/recreating-japanese-men-volume-20-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}