Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara,...
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Author: Michelle H. S. Ho
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Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies by Ho, Michelle H. S.

Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

$430.14

Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies

$430.14
Author: Michelle H. S. Ho
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In Emergent Genders, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female and female-to-male crossdressing is prevalent, Ho shows how their owners, employees, and customers creatively innovate what she calls emergent genders-new practices, categories, and ways of being stemming from the simultaneous fracturing, contestations, and (re)imaginations of older forms of gender and sexual variance in Japan. Such emergent genders initiate new markets for alternative categories of expression and subjectivity to thrive in a popular cultural hub like Akihabara instead of Tokyo's gay and lesbian neighborhood of Shinjuku Ni-chōme. By rethinking identitarian models of gender and sexuality, reconfiguring the significance of capitalism for trans studies and queer theory, and decentering theoretical frameworks incubated in a predominantly United States academic context, Ho offers new ways of examining how trans and gender nonconforming individuals may survive and flourish under capitalism.

Author: Michelle H. S. Ho
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781478028123

About the Author
Michelle H. S. Ho is Assistant Professor of Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies at the National University of Singapore.

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