Gei Debyuu : desire among Japanese and non-Japanese men in Tokyo, Japan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Abstract: This project is a cultural analysis of sexuality and race in Tokyo, Japan. Through an ethnographic study of Japanese and non-Japanese gay men who are interested in having international romantic relationships, I investigate how gay men, both Japanese and non-Japanese, become a part of Tokyo's gay social network and appropriate, manipulate, and amplify ideas of race to understand and explain their sexual activity and desires. Informants were drawn from an English language class organized for gay men and from Japanese and non-Japanese men who regularly patronized three foreigner-friendly bars in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo's largest gay bar area. An historical survey, an analysis of contemporary media, and ethnographic data collected over eighteen months (2006-2007) are presented to demonstrate the micro-processes of cultural construction of sexual and racial identity in Tokyo, particularly in relation to contemporary Japanese LGBT identity formation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Bolton, Jeffery |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology |
| Primary advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Inoue, Miyako, 1962- |
| Thesis advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Advisor | Reichert, Jim (James Robert) |
| Advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kutraluk Jeffery Daniel Bolton. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2011 by Jeffery Bolton
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