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Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army and Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan , both from UC Press. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (UC Press) and author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration , among others. “ Recreating Japanese Men 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 “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 “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 Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity. Zusammenfassung Includes essays that explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. This title examines a 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. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities Sabine Fru¨hstu¨ck and Anne Walthall Part I. Legacies of the Samurai 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan Anne Walthall 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant’s Seventeenth-Century Memoir Luke Roberts 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushido¨ and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation Michele M. Mason 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die? Sabine Fru¨hstu¨ck Part II. Marginal Men 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House Sakurai Yuki 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement Christopher Gerteis 7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko Susan Napier 8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men Tom Gill Part III. Bodies and Boundaries 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages Nagano Hiroko 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture Wolfram Manzenreiter 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Teresa A. Algoso 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future Ian Condry 13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan Jennifer Robertson Bibliography Contributors Index ...
