Abstract
Abstract“What is gender, how is it produced and reproduced, what are its possibilities?” asks gender theorist Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1999). This chapter examines the arbitrary nature of gender, the ways in which it has been, and is constructed, often tied to such concepts as biological sex, sexuality, masculinities, and femininities. Japan as a global trendsetter, with its flourishing popular culture, seems fertile ground for exploring gender as it provides various contexts and case studies for exploring gender-coding or expressing and experimenting with cross-gender identification. The chapters that follow are briefly introduced here, pointing out the ways in which they can be read to challenge conventional assumptions associated not only with gender but also with masculinities, femininities, sexuality, and normativity. Taking examples from Japanese popular culture, the chapters generate new transnational conversations about gender that move beyond any national or geographic specificity.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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