国際日本研究特論XV

Week1: Introduction Week2: Theories on Masculinity (1) Todd Reeser. 2010. Ch.1 ‘Theorizing Masculinity’ in Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.17-54. Week3: Theories on Masculinity (2) Todd Reeser. 2010. Ch.4 ‘Theorizing the Male Body’ in Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.91-118 Week4: Theories on Masculinity (3) Todd Reeser. 2010. Ch.7 ‘Masculinity and Racialized Subjectivities’ in Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.144-170 Week5: Theories on Masculinity (4) Todd Reeser. 2010. Ch.8 ‘Masculinity and the Nation’ in Masculinities in Theory: An Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp.171-199. 101-137. Week 6: Japanese masculinity and Bushidō Michele M. Mason (2011) Empowering the Would-be Warrior: Bushidö and the Gendered Bodies of the Japanese Nation, in Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (eds) Recreating Japanese Men. Berkley: University of California Press, pp. 68-90. Week 7: Race, masculinity, and war propaganda Morris Low (2003) The Emperor’s sons go to war: competing masculinities in modern Japan, in Kam Louie and Morris Low (eds) Asian Masculinities, London: Routledge, pp. 81-99. Week 8: Economic masculinity Romit Dasgupta, (2003) Creating corporate warriors: the “salaryman” and masculinity in Japan. in Kam Louie and Morris Low (eds) Asian Masculinities, London: Routledge, pp.118-134. Week 9: Hostess clubs and male-bonding Anne Allison. 1994. Male Bonding. Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club. University of Chicago Press, pp.151-167. Week 10: Masculinity and social security Tom Gill, 2011. ailed Manhood on the Streets of Urban Japan: The Meanings of Self­Reliance for Homeless Men. in Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall (eds) Recreating Japanese Men. Berkley: University of California Press, pp. 177-202. Week 11: Masculinity and Japaneseness in representation Lucy Glasspool. 2016. Making Masculinity: Articulations of Gender and Japaneseness in Japanese RPGs and Machinima. In Alexis Pulos & S. Austin Lee. Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play: Video Games in East Asia. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.99-126. Week 12: Female masculinity and fantasy Karen Nakamura and Hisako Matsuo, 2005. Female masculinity and fantasy spaces: transcending genders in the Takarazuka Theatre and Japanese popular culture. In James E. Roberson and Nobue Suzuki (eds) Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan Dislocating the salaryman doxa, London: Routledge, pp. 59-76. Week 13: Masculinity in fashion Masafumi Monden. 2015. Boy’s elegance: a Liminality of boyish charm and old-world suavity. In Japanese fashion cultures: Dress and gender in contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pp.45-76. Week 14: Japanese Imperialism and gender politics Takashi Fujitani. 2011. The Colonial and National Politics of Gender, Sex, and Family. Race for empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II, pp. 335-374.

This course requires students to make at least one presentation (20-30 minutes) summarizing a reading assignment in English to the class and to actively participate in class as well as submitting an end of term paper (2000-2500 words).

Class attendance and participation: 30% Class Presentation: 30% Term’s essay: 40%

You must read reading assignments and prepare questions for the class discussion before the class.

-This class covers wide topics of gender and sexuality. If you are uncomfortable talking about these issues, this course may not be suitable. -If you make repeatedly offensive comments in the class, you may be refused attendance. In that case, you will not receive credits from the course.