An Ethnography of Crossdressing: Gender Politics and Queer Belongings in Contemporary Japan
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An Ethnography of Crossdressing: Gender Politics and Queer Belongings in Contemporary Japan
Yazar:
Ho, Michelle Hui Shan, author.
ISBN:
9780438123946
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1 electronic resource (174 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Victoria Hesford Committee members: Anne Allison; Kadji Amin; Michele Friedner.
Özet:
Drawing on 14 months of fieldwork in Tokyo, Japan, this project is an ethnographic investigation into joso (male-to-female crossdressing) and danso (female-to-male crossdressing) from the mid-2000s to the present. Through a case study of crossdressing cafes, establishments where employees dress as a different gender and attend to customers, this research examines the gender politics and queer belongings of crossdressing individuals and those they engage with. Employees and customers locate themselves within a wide spectrum of desires, such as straight, non-binary, transgender, and bisexual/pansexual, with more than half the staff identifying as non-heterosexual or non-cisgender. Specifically, I mine the interrelated connections between crossdressing and affect, sociality, gender and sexuality, and consumption of popular cultural media. I conducted interviews and participant observation with staff and patrons at Paradise and Garcon, the first joso and danso cafes respectively to open in Akihabara, a haven for fans of Japanese animation, comics, and games. Based on my ethnographic data, I demonstrate that these individuals' gender-crossing practices are located in affect---what I call "affective genderplay." Employees and customers continue to visit or work at the cafes because over time they develop attachments to joso and danso and to other people engaged in crossdressing. Using affect, queer, and feminist theories to interpret my data, I argue that individuals challenge gender norms and roles in their imbricated approaches towards crossdressing as shumi (hobby; taste), aesthetic form, and articulation of often socially unacceptable identities.
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School code: 0771
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