Mark McLelland is lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, at the University of Wollongong.

[This] book will serve as a welcome corrective to sparse earlier publications that have overly generalized, homogenized and singularized homosexuality and other queer experiences in Japan. The book will be appreciated by students of Japan's post–World War II era who have found it difficult so far to position Japan's queer culture in an international setting.

• Chapter 1 List of IllustrationsChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Heteronormativity on the Road to WarChapter 5 Japan's Postwar Perverse CultureChapter 6 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother GirlsChapter 7 The Development of a Homo SubcultureChapter 8 Toward a Lesbian and Gay ConsciousnessChapter 9 Transgender LivesChapter 10 AfterwordChapter 11 Bibliography

Mark McLelland is lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, at the University of Wollongong.

[This] book will serve as a welcome corrective to sparse earlier publications that have overly generalized, homogenized and singularized homosexuality and other queer experiences in Japan. The book will be appreciated by students of Japan's post–World War II era who have found it difficult so far to position Japan's queer culture in an international setting.

• Chapter 1 List of IllustrationsChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Heteronormativity on the Road to WarChapter 5 Japan's Postwar Perverse CultureChapter 6 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother GirlsChapter 7 The Development of a Homo SubcultureChapter 8 Toward a Lesbian and Gay ConsciousnessChapter 9 Transgender LivesChapter 10 AfterwordChapter 11 Bibliography

Mark McLelland is lecturer in sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, at the University of Wollongong.

[This] book will serve as a welcome corrective to sparse earlier publications that have overly generalized, homogenized and singularized homosexuality and other queer experiences in Japan. The book will be appreciated by students of Japan's post–World War II era who have found it difficult so far to position Japan's queer culture in an international setting.

• Chapter 1 List of IllustrationsChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 Heteronormativity on the Road to WarChapter 5 Japan's Postwar Perverse CultureChapter 6 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother GirlsChapter 7 The Development of a Homo SubcultureChapter 8 Toward a Lesbian and Gay ConsciousnessChapter 9 Transgender LivesChapter 10 AfterwordChapter 11 Bibliography