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Feb 15, 2017 · Sawabe plots out a more clear-cut periodization of lesbian activism (rather than the lesbian community): after gesturing to the 1960s bar scene, Sawabe divides the history of lesbian activism in Japan quite neatly along decade lines, with the 1970s being the seeds, the 1980s, the sprouts, the 1990s, the flowering, and the 2000s, the fruit.
This article presents a historical overview of LGBTQ activism in Japan from the 1980s to the present, highlighting key events and debates that have shaped contemporary concerns, and examines some...
Saori Kamano. Drawing from interviews with 22 lesbians in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan, this paper explores how lesbians negotiate heterosexist norms and claim their lives and identities in the family of origin and at work.
Records of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan. Though these relations had existed in Japan for millennia, they became most apparent to scholars during the Tokugawa (or Edo) period.
LGBT Culture in Japan has recently begun to distinguish. The Japanese adopted the English term gender ( ジェンダー, jendā) to describe cultural concepts of feminine and masculine. Previously, sei was used to distinguish the binary biological sexes, female and male, as well as the concept of gender.
Japanese women to navigate same-sex relationships throughout history. Due to the intense pressure Japanese women face to marry and have children, same-sex relationships between women have historically been dismissed as something women will.
Nov 18, 2010 · Contemporary Japan maintains longstanding and well-documented traditions of same-sex eroticism and yet the terminology for describing these traditions as well as the contexts and identities through which they have been expressed have changed greatly since Japan's opening to the West at the end of the nineteenth century.
