Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (2016), as well as journal articles and book chapters on cinema and audiences in postwar and contemporary Japan. Her current ethnographic research project focuses on early postwar film audiences in Japan.Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches Japanese literature, popular culture, and language. She researches fairy tale studies in Japanese and English, with particular interests in ideas of gender and animals in retellings of folktales and traditional stories. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (2017). She has translated short stories by writers such as Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki and literary and cultural studies criticism by scholars such as Kan Satoko, Fujimoto Yukari, and Honda Masuko.Mark Pendleton is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. A cultural and social historian by training, his research interests lie in modern and contemporary Japan, East Asian memory studies, and transnational histories of gender and sexuality. He has published in a number of academic journals including Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Review , and has contributed book chapters on topics related to historical justice and memory, transnational sexual politics in East Asia, and Japanese dark tourism. He is a member of the editorial committee of leading history journal History Workshop Journal .

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an unprecedented collection of new and updated accounts of original texts which constitutes the most comprehensive overview of both classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of gender and culture. This interdisciplinary-based volume analyzes the distribution of power across genders from all aspects of life in Japan and challenges us to re-examine the crossroads of culture and gender."Hideko Abe, Chair and Professor, East Asian Studies, Colby College"At last, a handbook on Japanese gender. And one which is both comprehensive and up-to-date in terms of coverage, methodology and theory. This should rightly go straight on to the reading lists of anyone teaching courses on contemporary Japan." Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture offers a wide range of refreshing and critical perspectives on genders and Japanese culture. Particularly impressive is how this volume tackles the complex intersecting issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and others. It is informative, accessible, essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive understanding of genders in Japan." Kazue Harada, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Japanese Language and Culture, Miami University, Ohio"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an important and useful resource with a broad scope of essays from accomplished scholars. This vital collection faithfully reflects the history of the field and paves the way for future research and pedagogy on gender and society in Japan." Kathryn Hemmann, Assistant Professor, Japanese Literature and Popular Culture, George Mason University

• ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Culture in Japan TodayJennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark PendletonPart I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical UpdateBarbara Molony 2. Gender in Pre-Modern JapanRajyashree Pandey 3. Debates in Japanese FeminismsAyako Kano 4. Gender and LanguageMiyako Inoue5. Masculinity Studies in JapanEmma E. Cook6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in JapanS. P. F. Dale7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban JapanJamie Coates Part II: Home, Family, and the "Private Sphere"8. Gender and the Koseki David Chapman9. Attitudes to Marriage and ChildbearingEkaterina Hertog10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary JapanAya Ezawa11. Intimacy in and Beyond the FamilyAllison Alexy12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through NostalgiaAnna Vainio13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and ChildbirthManami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu14. Religion and Gender in JapanYumi Murayama and Erica BaffelliPart III: Work, Politics, and The "Public Sphere"15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining ProblemsStephanie Assmann16. Gender and the WorkplaceHelen Macnaughtan 17. Sex WorkToru Takeoka 18. Gender, Labour, and MigrationHelena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer19. Women in Electoral PoliticsEmma Dalton20. Demanding Publics: Women and ActivismChelsea Szendi Schieder21. Lesbians and Queer Women in JapanJane Wallace Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in JapanRosemary Overell23. Gender in Digital Technologies and CulturesJennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese HistoryKeiko Ikeda 25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial ArtsOleg Benesch26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan Masafumi Monden 27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and SpacesEmerald KingPart V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary StudiesLaura Clark and Lucy Fraser29. Gender and PoetryAndrew Campana30. Gender, Manga, and Anime Grace En-Yi Ting31. Cuteness Studies and JapanJoshua Paul Dale 32. Gender and Visual CultureGunhild Borggreen33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in JapanSally McLaren34. Representing Girls in CinemaKate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and ConsumptionAlexandra Hambleton Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing Fusako Innami37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the Ninkyō (Chivalrous) Genre FilmIsolde Standish38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism Akiko Sugawa-Shimada39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"Lynne Nakano40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero SystemThomas Baudinette

Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (2016), as well as journal articles and book chapters on cinema and audiences in postwar and contemporary Japan. Her current ethnographic research project focuses on early postwar film audiences in Japan.Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches Japanese literature, popular culture, and language. She researches fairy tale studies in Japanese and English, with particular interests in ideas of gender and animals in retellings of folktales and traditional stories. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (2017). She has translated short stories by writers such as Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki and literary and cultural studies criticism by scholars such as Kan Satoko, Fujimoto Yukari, and Honda Masuko.Mark Pendleton is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. A cultural and social historian by training, his research interests lie in modern and contemporary Japan, East Asian memory studies, and transnational histories of gender and sexuality. He has published in a number of academic journals including Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Review , and has contributed book chapters on topics related to historical justice and memory, transnational sexual politics in East Asia, and Japanese dark tourism. He is a member of the editorial committee of leading history journal History Workshop Journal .

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an unprecedented collection of new and updated accounts of original texts which constitutes the most comprehensive overview of both classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of gender and culture. This interdisciplinary-based volume analyzes the distribution of power across genders from all aspects of life in Japan and challenges us to re-examine the crossroads of culture and gender."Hideko Abe, Chair and Professor, East Asian Studies, Colby College"At last, a handbook on Japanese gender. And one which is both comprehensive and up-to-date in terms of coverage, methodology and theory. This should rightly go straight on to the reading lists of anyone teaching courses on contemporary Japan." Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture offers a wide range of refreshing and critical perspectives on genders and Japanese culture. Particularly impressive is how this volume tackles the complex intersecting issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and others. It is informative, accessible, essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive understanding of genders in Japan." Kazue Harada, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Japanese Language and Culture, Miami University, Ohio"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an important and useful resource with a broad scope of essays from accomplished scholars. This vital collection faithfully reflects the history of the field and paves the way for future research and pedagogy on gender and society in Japan." Kathryn Hemmann, Assistant Professor, Japanese Literature and Popular Culture, George Mason University

• ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Culture in Japan TodayJennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark PendletonPart I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical UpdateBarbara Molony 2. Gender in Pre-Modern JapanRajyashree Pandey 3. Debates in Japanese FeminismsAyako Kano 4. Gender and LanguageMiyako Inoue5. Masculinity Studies in JapanEmma E. Cook6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in JapanS. P. F. Dale7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban JapanJamie Coates Part II: Home, Family, and the "Private Sphere"8. Gender and the Koseki David Chapman9. Attitudes to Marriage and ChildbearingEkaterina Hertog10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary JapanAya Ezawa11. Intimacy in and Beyond the FamilyAllison Alexy12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through NostalgiaAnna Vainio13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and ChildbirthManami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu14. Religion and Gender in JapanYumi Murayama and Erica BaffelliPart III: Work, Politics, and The "Public Sphere"15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining ProblemsStephanie Assmann16. Gender and the WorkplaceHelen Macnaughtan 17. Sex WorkToru Takeoka 18. Gender, Labour, and MigrationHelena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer19. Women in Electoral PoliticsEmma Dalton20. Demanding Publics: Women and ActivismChelsea Szendi Schieder21. Lesbians and Queer Women in JapanJane Wallace Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in JapanRosemary Overell23. Gender in Digital Technologies and CulturesJennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese HistoryKeiko Ikeda 25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial ArtsOleg Benesch26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan Masafumi Monden 27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and SpacesEmerald KingPart V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary StudiesLaura Clark and Lucy Fraser29. Gender and PoetryAndrew Campana30. Gender, Manga, and Anime Grace En-Yi Ting31. Cuteness Studies and JapanJoshua Paul Dale 32. Gender and Visual CultureGunhild Borggreen33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in JapanSally McLaren34. Representing Girls in CinemaKate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and ConsumptionAlexandra Hambleton Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing Fusako Innami37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the Ninkyō (Chivalrous) Genre FilmIsolde Standish38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism Akiko Sugawa-Shimada39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"Lynne Nakano40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero SystemThomas Baudinette

Jennifer Coates is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. She is the author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964 (2016), as well as journal articles and book chapters on cinema and audiences in postwar and contemporary Japan. Her current ethnographic research project focuses on early postwar film audiences in Japan.Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches Japanese literature, popular culture, and language. She researches fairy tale studies in Japanese and English, with particular interests in ideas of gender and animals in retellings of folktales and traditional stories. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (2017). She has translated short stories by writers such as Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki and literary and cultural studies criticism by scholars such as Kan Satoko, Fujimoto Yukari, and Honda Masuko.Mark Pendleton is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sheffield. A cultural and social historian by training, his research interests lie in modern and contemporary Japan, East Asian memory studies, and transnational histories of gender and sexuality. He has published in a number of academic journals including Japanese Studies and Asian Studies Review , and has contributed book chapters on topics related to historical justice and memory, transnational sexual politics in East Asia, and Japanese dark tourism. He is a member of the editorial committee of leading history journal History Workshop Journal .

"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an unprecedented collection of new and updated accounts of original texts which constitutes the most comprehensive overview of both classic and contemporary scholarship in the field of gender and culture. This interdisciplinary-based volume analyzes the distribution of power across genders from all aspects of life in Japan and challenges us to re-examine the crossroads of culture and gender."Hideko Abe, Chair and Professor, East Asian Studies, Colby College"At last, a handbook on Japanese gender. And one which is both comprehensive and up-to-date in terms of coverage, methodology and theory. This should rightly go straight on to the reading lists of anyone teaching courses on contemporary Japan." Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture offers a wide range of refreshing and critical perspectives on genders and Japanese culture. Particularly impressive is how this volume tackles the complex intersecting issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and others. It is informative, accessible, essential reading for anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive understanding of genders in Japan." Kazue Harada, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Japanese Language and Culture, Miami University, Ohio"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture is an important and useful resource with a broad scope of essays from accomplished scholars. This vital collection faithfully reflects the history of the field and paves the way for future research and pedagogy on gender and society in Japan." Kathryn Hemmann, Assistant Professor, Japanese Literature and Popular Culture, George Mason University

• ContentsIntroduction: Gender and Culture in Japan TodayJennifer Coates, Lucy Fraser, and Mark PendletonPart I: Theorizing and Historicizing Gender and Japanese Culture1. Gendering Modern Japanese History: An Historiographical UpdateBarbara Molony 2. Gender in Pre-Modern JapanRajyashree Pandey 3. Debates in Japanese FeminismsAyako Kano 4. Gender and LanguageMiyako Inoue5. Masculinity Studies in JapanEmma E. Cook6. Transgender, Non-binary Genders, and Intersex in JapanS. P. F. Dale7. Gender and Ethnicity in Urban JapanJamie Coates Part II: Home, Family, and the "Private Sphere"8. Gender and the Koseki David Chapman9. Attitudes to Marriage and ChildbearingEkaterina Hertog10. Family, Inequality, and the Work-Family Balance in Contemporary JapanAya Ezawa11. Intimacy in and Beyond the FamilyAllison Alexy12. Rural Gender Construction and Decline: Negotiating Risks Through NostalgiaAnna Vainio13. Changing Folk Cultures of Pregnancy and ChildbirthManami Yasui, Translated by Lucy Fraser and Madelein Shimizu14. Religion and Gender in JapanYumi Murayama and Erica BaffelliPart III: Work, Politics, and The "Public Sphere"15. Gender and the Law: Progress and Remaining ProblemsStephanie Assmann16. Gender and the WorkplaceHelen Macnaughtan 17. Sex WorkToru Takeoka 18. Gender, Labour, and MigrationHelena Hof and Gracia Liu-Farrer19. Women in Electoral PoliticsEmma Dalton20. Demanding Publics: Women and ActivismChelsea Szendi Schieder21. Lesbians and Queer Women in JapanJane Wallace Part IV: Cultures of Play: Leisure, Music, and Performance22. Gender and Musical Subcultures in JapanRosemary Overell23. Gender in Digital Technologies and CulturesJennifer Coates and Laura Haapio-Kirk24. Women and Physical Culture in Japanese HistoryKeiko Ikeda 25. Myths of Masculinity in the Martial ArtsOleg Benesch26. The Continuum of Male Beauty in Contemporary Japan Masafumi Monden 27. Performing Gender: Cosplay and Otaku Cultures and SpacesEmerald KingPart V: Cultural Production: Literature, Cinema, and Popular Culture28. Gender in Japanese Literature and Literary StudiesLaura Clark and Lucy Fraser29. Gender and PoetryAndrew Campana30. Gender, Manga, and Anime Grace En-Yi Ting31. Cuteness Studies and JapanJoshua Paul Dale 32. Gender and Visual CultureGunhild Borggreen33. Gender, Media, and Misogyny in JapanSally McLaren34. Representing Girls in CinemaKate Taylor-Jones and Georgia Thomas-Parr35. Gendered Desires: Pornography and ConsumptionAlexandra Hambleton Part VI: Texts and Contexts: Case Studies36. Gendered High and Low Culture in Japan: The Transgressing Flesh in Kawabata’s Dance Writing Fusako Innami37. Genre and Gender: Romantic Friendships and the Homosocial Imperative in the Ninkyō (Chivalrous) Genre FilmIsolde Standish38. Girls with Arms and Girls as Arms in Anime: the Use of Girls for "Soft" Militarism Akiko Sugawa-Shimada39. Beyond the "Parasite Single"Lynne Nakano40. Japanese Gay Men’s Experiences of Gender: Negotiating the Hetero SystemThomas Baudinette