Recreating Japanese Men

Sabine Fruhstuck is Professor of Modern Japanese Culture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army and Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan, both from UC Press. Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History (UC Press) and author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, among others.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Interrogating Men and Masculinities Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall Part I. Legacies of the Samurai 1. Do Guns Have Gender? Technology and Status in Early Modern Japan Anne Walthall 2. Name and Honor: A Merchant's Seventeenth-Century Memoir Luke Roberts 3. Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushido. and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation Michele M. Mason 4. After Heroism: Must Real Soldiers Die? Sabine Fruhstuck Part II. Marginal Men 5. Perpetual Dependency: The Life Course of Male Workers in a Merchant House Sakurai Yuki 6. Losing the Union Man: Class and Gender in the Postwar Labor Movement Christopher Gerteis 7. Where Have All the Salarymen Gone? Masculinity, Masochism, and Technomobility in Densha Otoko Susan Napier 8. Failed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self-Reliance for Homeless Men Tom Gill Part III. Bodies and Boundaries 9. Collective Maturation: The Construction of Masculinity in Early Modern Villages Nagano Hiroko 10. Climbing Walls: Dismantling Hegemonic Masculinity in a Japanese Sport Subculture Wolfram Manzenreiter 11. Not Suitable as a Man? Conscription, Masculinity, and Hermaphroditism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Teresa A. Algoso 12. Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future Ian Condry 13. Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan Jennifer Robertson Bibliography Contributors Index