Michelle H. S. Ho

Emergent Genders

Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. By rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality, Ho offers new ways of examining how trans and gender nonconforming individuals may survive and flourish under capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031376
• ISBN-10: 1478031379
• Artikelnr.: 70541069

Autorenporträt

Michelle H. S. Ho

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Tracing Emergent Genders  1 1. Categories That Bind: Gender Innovations and Their Sticky Relations to Capital  27 2. Doing Business in Japan’s Pink Economies: Enacting Home, Family, and Alternative Forms of Belonging  52 3. Alternative Worlds in Akihabara: The Rise of Contemporary Jos
and Dans
Cultures  79 4. More Than Just Work: Trans and Nonbinary Employees Capitalizing on Their Labor  108 5. Consuming Genders, Fashioning Bodies: Thinking Style and Beauty in Contemporary Jos
and Dans
Cultures  138 Coda. Living Otherwise in the New Normal  169 Notes  179 Bibliography  221 Index