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Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

Hardcover

Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1478028122
ISBN13: 9781478028123
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.10 Depth: 6.10
Language: English
In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female and female-to-male crossdressing is prevalent, Ho shows how their owners, employees, and customers creatively innovate what she calls emergent genders--new practices, categories, and ways of being stemming from the simultaneous fracturing, contestations, and (re)imaginations of older forms of gender and sexual variance in Japan. Such emergent genders initiate new markets for alternative categories of expression and subjectivity to thrive in a popular cultural hub like Akihabara instead of Tokyo's gay and lesbian neighborhood of Shinjuku Ni-chōme. By rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality, reconfiguring the significance of capitalism for trans studies and queer theory, and decentering theoretical frameworks incubated in a predominantly United States academic context, Ho offers new ways of examining how trans and gender nonconforming individuals may survive and flourish under capitalism.

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