Queer Japanese presents a comprehensive picture of the ways Japanese sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, transgendered, and transsexual individuals) negotiate their lives through linguistic practice in various social contexts. Based on nearly ten years of fieldwork in Tokyo, Hideko Abe examines a wide range of linguistic practices, including magazine advice columns, bars, television, seminars, text messaging on cell phones, the theater, and private homes. Ultimately, Abe reveals how gender and sexual identities are fluid, unstable, and negotiated.
Author(s): Hideko Abe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 212
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Japanese Names and Words......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Queer Etiquette?: Advice Columns with a Difference......Page 30
2 Lesbian Bar Talk......Page 46
3 Cross-dressing Speech: The “Real” Womanhood of Men......Page 66
4 Performing the Performative in the Theater of the Queer......Page 90
5 Queen’s Speech and the Playful Plundering of Women’s Language......Page 110
6 Queen’s Speech as a Private Matter......Page 148
Notes......Page 166
Bibliography......Page 192
F......Page 208
K......Page 209
O......Page 210
S......Page 211
Y......Page 212
