Référence : L132949
Éditeur : University of California Press Berkeley
ISBN : 0520086279
Année : 1995
Catégorie : Livres en Anglais
Description
Texte en anglais / text in english ! VIII + 310 p. --- Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated but positively celebrated male-male sexuality. Few scholars, however, have seriously studied the early modern Japanese homosexual tradition, sought to explain its origins, or explored how its particular conventions reflected class structure and gender roles in an especially dynamic preindustrial society. Male homosexual behavior in Tokugawa Japan rarely constituted an exclusive lifestyle ; bisexual behavior was the norm. Leupp argues that although some men were exclusively homosexual, "nurture" (rather than "nature") factors contributed to the male-male sexual behavior that was so conspicuous in this society. These factors included the absence of women from monastic society and their scarcity in samurai society, skewed sex ratios in Tokugawa cities, and the culture surrounding kabuki theater and the associated world of male prostitution. Leupp's work is the first to thoroughly examine this homosexual tradition, to place it within a global context, and to explore its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. Drawing on his broad knowledge of Tokugawa social history and his familiarity with the primary sources, Leupp has produced a dispassionate and persuasive explanation for the prevalence of the male bisexual behavior in early modern Japan. --- Sommaire : List of Illustrations. Introduction. 1. The Pre-Tokugawa Homosexual Tradition. 2. The Commercialization of Nanshoku. 3. Tokugawa Homosexual Culture. 4. Social Tolerance. 5. Nanshoku and the Construction of Gender
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