- 281 pages
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About this book
In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in jos? and dans? cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female and female-to-male crossdressing is prevalent, Ho shows how their owners, employees, and customers creatively innovate what she calls emergent gendersānew practices, categories, and ways of being stemming from the simultaneous fracturing, contestations, and (re)imaginations of older forms of gender and sexual variance in Japan. Such emergent genders initiate new markets for alternative categories of expression and subjectivity to thrive in a popular cultural hub like Akihabara instead of Tokyo's gay and lesbian neighborhood of Shinjuku Ni-ch?me. By rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality, reconfiguring the significance of capitalism for trans studies and queer theory, and decentering theoretical frameworks incubated in a predominantly United States academic context, Ho offers new ways of examining how trans and gender nonconforming individuals may survive and flourish under capitalism.
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eBook ISBN
9781478060338Subtopic
GlobalisationTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Tracing Emergent Genders
- 1. Categories That Bind: Gender Innovations and Their Sticky Relations to Capital
- 2. Doing Business in Japanās Pink Economies: Enacting Home, Family, and Alternative Forms of Belonging
- 3. Alternative Worlds in Akihabara: The Rise of Contemporary JosÅ and DansÅ Cultures
- 4. More Than Just Work: Trans and Nonbinary Employees Capitalizing on Their Labor
- Consuming Genders, Fashioning Bodies: Thinking Style and Beauty in Contemporary JosÅ and DansÅ Cultures
- Coda: Living Otherwise in the New Normal
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index