Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

1.     Introduction: Destabilizing Gender

Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland, Finland (words: 9 370)

2.     From dans to Genderless: Mediating Queer Styles and Androgynous Bodies in Japan

Michelle H.S. Ho, National University of Singapore, Singapore (words: 11 303)

3.     "I'll create my own precedents": Female Rakugo Performers on Tokyo's yose Stages.

Sarah Stark, University of Ghent, Belgium (words: 12 554)

4.     Not Quite There: Nike's Diversity and Inclusion Agenda and Japan's Readiness

Yuko Itatsu, University of Tokyo, Japan (words: 8 894)

5.     Hybrid Masculinities?: Reflexive Accounts of Japanese Youth at University jos Contests Ayumi Miyazaki, Japan Women's University, International Christian University, Japan (words: 9 834)

6.     The Widening Road: Constructions of Gay Japanese Men on YouTube

Gavin Furukawa, Sophia University, Japan (words: 7 824)

7.     Boys' Love, Transmedia Storytelling, and LGBT Awareness in Contemporary Japan

Emiko Nozawa, Chuo University, Japan (words: 10 558)

8.     Creating the Body Beautiful Cosplay: Cross-Dressing, Cosplay, and Hyper Femininity and Hyper Masculinity

Emerald King, University of Tasmania, Australia (words: 10 030)

9.     Engagements with Gender, Sexuality and Authenticity in Cosplay

Lucy Glasspool, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan (words: 12 589)

Sirpa Salenius is Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. Her research focuses on issues related to race, gender, and sexuality, from the nineteenth century to the present. Her other edited works include Race and Transatlantic Identities (2017), TransAtlantic Conversations (2017) and Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century (2021).