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In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality, then turns to law, literature, newspaper articles, medical tracts, and other sources to discover Japanese attitudes toward sexuality over the centuries. During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

J4172 --- J4127 --- J5920 --- Homosexuality --- -Homosexuality and literature --- -Homosexuality in literature --- Legal literature --- -Love in literature --- Medical literature --- -Life sciences literature --- Medicine --- Law books --- Lawbooks --- Law --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family and interpersonal relations -- sex relations (identity, preference, community, customs and culture) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social identity and self --- Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose ( -1868) --- History --- History and criticism --- Homosexuality and literature --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Love in literature. --- History. --- History and criticism. --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- family and interpersonal relations -- sex relations (identity, preference, community, customs and culture) --- -Law books --- Homosexuality in literature --- Love in literature --- Life sciences literature --- J4176.10 --- J4260 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- policy, legislation, guidelines, codes of behavior --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- penology