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Regimes of desire : young gay men, media, and masculinity in Tokyo
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ISBN: 047212918X Year: 2021 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city's gay male community. Typically understood as a "safe space" where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan's largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, Regimes of Desire reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent the neighborhood's many bars, the book reveals that the district is instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified, with Shinjuku Ni-chōme's bar culture privileging "hard" masculine identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus excluding all those men who supposedly "fail" to live up to these hegemonic gendered ideals. Through careful analysis of media such as pornographic videos, manga comics, lifestyle magazines and online dating services, this book argues that the commercial imperatives of the Japanese gay media landscape and the bar culture of Shinjuku Ni-chōme act together to limit the agency of young gay men so as to better exploit them economically. Exploring the direct impacts of media consumption on the lives of four key informants who frequent the district's gay bars in search of community, fun and romance, Regimes of Desire reveals the complexity of Tokyo's most popular "gay town" and intervenes in debates over the changing nature of masculinity in contemporary Japan.


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Gay bar
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ISBN: 1282764160 9786612764165 0299248534 9780299248536 9781282764163 9780299248505 029924850X 6612764163 0299248593 9780299248598 Year: 2010 Publisher: Madison, Wisconsin

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Vivacious, unconventional, candid, and straight, Helen Branson operated a gay bar in Los Angeles in the 1950s - America's most anti-gay decade. After years of fending off drunken passes as an entertainer in cocktail bars, this divorced grandmother preferred the wit, variety, and fun she found among homosexual men. Enjoying their companionship and deploring their plight, she gave her gay friends a place to socialize. Though at the time California statutes prohibited homosexuals from gathering in bars, Helen's place was relaxed, suave, and remarkably safe from police raids and other anti-homosexual hazards. In 1957 she published her extraordinary memoir Gay Bar, the first book by a heterosexual to depict the lives of homosexuals with admiration, respect, and love. In this new edition of Gay Bar, Will Fellows interweaves Branson's chapters with historical perspective provided through his own insightful commentary and excerpts gleaned from letters and essays appearing in gay publications of the period. Also included is the original introduction to the book by maverick 1950s psychiatrist Blanche Baker. The eclectic selection of voices gives the flavor of American life in that extraordinary age of anxiety, revealing how gay men saw themselves and their circumstances, and how others perceived them.


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Gay times.
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Year: 1984 Publisher: London : London : London : Millivres Ltd., Bulletrose Ltd. Millivres Ltd.


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Gay news.
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Year: 1980 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Masco Communications,


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Gay people's chronicle.
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Gay Peoples Press Associates, KWIR Publications


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Gay people's chronicle.
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Gay Peoples Press Associates, KWIR Publications

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Windy City times.
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Chicago, IL : Chicago, IL : Sentury Publications, Inc., Windy City Media Group


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Windy City times.
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Year: 1985 Publisher: Chicago, IL : Chicago, IL : Sentury Publications, Inc., Windy City Media Group


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Manners and mischief : gender, power, and etiquette in Japan
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ISBN: 1283278146 0520949498 9786613278142 9780520949492 0520267834 9780520267831 0520267842 9780520267848 9781283278140 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Offering a concise, entertaining snapshot of Japanese society, Manners and Mischief examines etiquette guides, advice literature, and other such instruction for behavior from the early modern period to the present day and discovers how manners do in fact make the nation. Eleven accessibly written essays consider a spectrum of cases, from the geisha party to gay bar cool, executive grooming, and good manners for subway travel. Together, they show that etiquette is much more than fussy rules for behavior. In fact the idiom of manners, packaged in conduct literature, reveals much about gender and class difference, notions of national identity, the dynamics of subversion and conformity, and more. This richly detailed work reveals how manners give meaning to everyday life and extraordinary occasions, and how they can illuminate larger social and cultural transformations.

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