The Great Mirror of Male Love
Title | The Great Mirror of Male Love PDF eBook |
Author | Saikaku Ihara |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780804718950 |
Winner of the 1990 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. ---------- "A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."--Journal of Japanese Studies
"The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku
Title | "The Great Mirror of Male Love" by Ihara Saikaku PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Gordon Schalow |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 526 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Male homosexuality |
ISBN |
The Life of an Amorous Woman
Title | The Life of an Amorous Woman PDF eBook |
Author | 井原西鶴 |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780811201872 |
Ihara Saikaku "wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world -- the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status."--Back cover.
Male Colors
Title | Male Colors PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Leupp |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 052091919X |
Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P. Leupp fills the gap with a dynamic examination of the origins and nature of the tradition. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. Combing through popular fiction, law codes, religious works, medical treatises, biographical material, and artistic treatments, Leupp traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai, then describes the emergence of homosexual practices among commoners in Tokugawa cities. He argues that it was "nurture" rather than "nature" that accounted for such conspicuous male/male sexuality and that bisexuality was more prevalent than homosexuality. Detailed, thorough, and very readable, this study is the first in English or Japanese to address so comprehensively one of the most complex and intriguing aspects of Japanese history.
Cartographies of Desire
Title | Cartographies of Desire PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory M. Pflugfelder |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2007-03-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520251652 |
"A remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization. Cartographies complements and, frankly, exceeds any of the English language monographs on similar topics that precede it, and it represents significant contributions to several fields outside of East Asian history, including literature, gender studies, lesbian and gay studies, and cultural studies."—Earl Jackson Jr., author of Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay male Representation and Fantastic Living: The Speculative Autobiographies of Samuel R. Delany
The Great Mirror of Male Love
Title | The Great Mirror of Male Love PDF eBook |
Author | Saikaku Ihara |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Great Mirrors Shattered
Title | Great Mirrors Shattered PDF eBook |
Author | John Whittier Treat |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN |
A compelling memoir of a gay man thoroughly familiar with the Japanese homosexual underground, a man anxious for his own health and unsure of the relationship he has left behind in the U.S.