Queer Japan: Personal Stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays,Transsexuals and Bisexuals
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0934678979 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Best of Small Press Award Winner . The first ever in-depth view of queer life in Japan, these personal stories of Japanese Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transsexuals, edited and translated by Barbara Summerhawk, Cheiron McMahill and Darren McDonald, span generations
Until recently there were not even terms to describe women-loving-women. With a new courage and consciousness, Japanese queers are beginning to speak out. Doseiai (same sex love between men) has never been legally nor socially accepted in Japan. A Best of Small Press Award Winner. In this important contribution to international queer studies, sixteen Japanese lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transsexuals tell their stories
Expanding the Understanding of Japan People will stumble upon this book, I think, from their interest in other areas, gay and lesbian studies, or Japanese culture for example. The area of gay and lesbian studies in Japan is still so new and relatively small compared to the United States, for example, that as a discourse it does not quite have the independence and s. Jeffrey Huffman said A Voice for those who have been discouraged from speaking. I came across this book three years ago, when I first arrived in Japan. I was reading it just as I was coming to terms with my own homosexuality. It contributed to the opening of my mind, and helped me find courage to come out and start living my life to the fullest.Queer Japan was, at first, my only way of knowing about Japanes. A very interesting and accurate glimpse of Japan I have lived in Japan for more than twenty years and I was very pleased to read this book. Though I am not gay I have many Japanese and non Japanese friends who are, and I have listened over the years to their stories. This book is a perfect example of what the gay experience is like here in Japan. It's very honest and moving. I
As American gay men, lesbians, and transsexuals continue to battle a conservative, Puritanical society for the right simply to be human, it is immeasurably valuable to hear the words, spoken with a courageous lack of ambiguity, of homosexuals and transsexuals fighting for the same right in a culture even more rigid and denying. --Christopher Davis, University of North Carolina . In these essays and interviews, bright, brave, large-hearted people tell us of their efforts to live happily and, in the process, create a Japan in which they will be accepted as citizens