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Regimes of Desire - Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyovolume 93 (Hardcover)
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Regimes of Desire - Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyovolume 93 (Hardcover)
Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies
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Shinjuku Ni-chome 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-chome'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-chome 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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