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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.
Gay men --- Gay community --- Gay bars --- Masculinity --- Social life and customs. --- Shinjuku Ni-chōme (Tokyo, Japan) --- Japan --- Social conditions.
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Gay people --- Lesbians --- Homosexuality --- Gay community --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- Gay people --- Homosexuality --- Gay rights --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay people --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Gay personals --- Gay bars --- Gay bars --- AIDS activists. --- AIDS (Disease) --- Gay activists. --- Gay bars. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay community. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gay personals. --- Gay rights. --- Homosexuality --- Lesbians. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects --- Societies, etc. --- Social aspects. --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Delaware. --- New Jersey. --- Pennsylvania. --- Pennsylvania --- United States.
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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.
Gay men --- Gay bars --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Male homosexuals --- Urnings --- Gays --- Men --- Bars (Drinking establishments) --- Gay business enterprises --- Social conditions
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Gays --- Lesbians --- Homosexuality --- Gay community --- Gay culture --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Gay personals --- Lesbians. --- Gay personals. --- Gay culture. --- Gay community. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay bars. --- Gay activists. --- AIDS activists. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gays. --- Homosexuality. --- Social aspects --- Law and legislation --- Societies, etc. --- Travel --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation. --- Travel. --- Great Britain. --- Gay people --- Gay people.
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Gays --- Lesbians --- Homosexuality --- Gay community --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- Gay rights --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Gay personals --- AIDS activists. --- Gay activists. --- Gay bars. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay community. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gay personals. --- Gay rights. --- Gays. --- Lesbians. --- Social aspects --- Societies, etc. --- Social aspects. --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Delaware. --- New Jersey. --- Pennsylvania. --- Pennsylvania --- United States. --- Gay people
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Gay men --- Lesbians --- Homosexuality --- Gay community --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- Feminists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay people --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- AIDS activists. --- Feminists. --- Gay activists. --- Gay bars. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay community. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gay men. --- Gay people. --- Lesbians. --- Social aspects --- Societies, etc. --- Social aspects. --- Ohio. --- Ohio --- United States. --- United States
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Gay men --- Lesbians --- Homosexuality --- Gay community --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- Feminists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gays --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Social aspects --- Societies, etc. --- Ohio. --- Ohio --- United States. --- Gay people --- United States
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Gays --- Lesbians --- Sexual minorities --- Gay community --- Homosexuality --- Homophobia --- Gay rights --- Gay activists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Gay liberation movement --- AIDS activists. --- Gay activists. --- Gay bars. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay community. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gay rights. --- Gays. --- Homophobia. --- Lesbians. --- Sexual minorities. --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects. --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Cook County (Ill.) --- Illinois. --- Illinois --- United States. --- Gay people --- LGBTQ+ people
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Gay people --- Lesbians --- Sexual minorities --- Gay community --- Homosexuality --- Homophobia --- Gay rights --- Gay activists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay bars --- Gay business enterprises --- Gay people --- Lesbians --- Sexual minorities --- Homosexuality --- Gay rights --- Gay activists --- AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Gay people --- Homosexuality --- Gay liberation movement --- Gay activists --- AIDS activists. --- AIDS (Disease) --- Gay activists. --- Gay bars. --- Gay business enterprises. --- Gay community. --- Gay liberation movement. --- Gay rights. --- Homophobia. --- Homosexuality --- Lesbians. --- Sexual minorities. --- LGBTQ+ people --- Social aspects --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Cook County (Ill.) --- Illinois. --- Illinois --- Illinois --- United States.
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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.
Power (Social sciences) --- Sex role --- Etiquette --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Japan --- Social life and customs. --- advice literature. --- asia scholars. --- behavior guides. --- class differences. --- conformity. --- cultural transformations. --- culture studies. --- early modern period. --- etiquette guides. --- everyday life. --- gay bars. --- geisha party. --- gender differences. --- gender norms. --- gender studies. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese society. --- modern japan. --- national identity. --- nonfiction. --- power dynamics. --- self help guides. --- social analysis. --- social etiquette. --- social history. --- subversion. --- subway travel.
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