Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art
Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art explores the history of intersex or futanari figures in modern Japanese literature and culture to examine the provocative discourses that defied a sexual regime as the modern nation-state of Japan advanced its national and imperial designs. As s...
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| description | Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art explores the history of intersex or futanari figures in modern Japanese literature and culture to examine the provocative discourses that defied a sexual regime as the modern nation-state of Japan advanced its national and imperial designs. As sexologists and medical practitioners continued reinforcing categories of “male” and “female,” “normal” and “pathological,” intersex literary figures garnered attention because the perceived subject was expected to be male or female—any variation was unintelligible. Many of the same century-old tropes and societal attitudes of needing to “cure” intersex persist. At the same time the 1991 novel Ringu by Suzuki Kōji testifies to a denial of futanari subjectivity, while the 1998 Japanese horror film (Ringu) and its 2002 American remake (The Ring) erase intersex all together. Winston interrogates how the trope of the futanari is deployed for pragmatic or aesthetic purposes, thereby complicating the trajectory of the dominant sexological ideology of the time. Winston reads the figurative futanari in the works of Shimizu Shikin, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, and Takabatake Kashō, and reveals how the artists’ different approaches to the futanari served their agendas and expressed views that challenged the dominant discourse on intersex. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1687862025-11-04T05:08:44Z Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art Winston, Leslie intersexual, futanari, hermaphrodite, sexology, Takabatake Kasho, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Shimizu Shikin, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Decadence, Naturalism, ryoseiguyu, Ringu, Suzuki Koji, Kataomoi, Higashino Keigo, Takehisa Yumeji, Habuto Eiji, Magnus Hirschfeld, Michel Foucault thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art explores the history of intersex or futanari figures in modern Japanese literature and culture to examine the provocative discourses that defied a sexual regime as the modern nation-state of Japan advanced its national and imperial designs. As sexologists and medical practitioners continued reinforcing categories of “male” and “female,” “normal” and “pathological,” intersex literary figures garnered attention because the perceived subject was expected to be male or female—any variation was unintelligible. Many of the same century-old tropes and societal attitudes of needing to “cure” intersex persist. At the same time the 1991 novel Ringu by Suzuki Kōji testifies to a denial of futanari subjectivity, while the 1998 Japanese horror film (Ringu) and its 2002 American remake (The Ring) erase intersex all together. Winston interrogates how the trope of the futanari is deployed for pragmatic or aesthetic purposes, thereby complicating the trajectory of the dominant sexological ideology of the time. Winston reads the figurative futanari in the works of Shimizu Shikin, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, and Takabatake Kashō, and reveals how the artists’ different approaches to the futanari served their agendas and expressed views that challenged the dominant discourse on intersex. 2025-11-04T05:08:43Z 2025-11-04T05:08:43Z 2025-11-03T11:31:18Z 2025 book ONIX_20251103T122749_9780472905355_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/108006 9780472905355 9780472077762 9780472057764 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168786 eng Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/108006/1/9780472905355.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12532134 10.3998/mpub.12532134 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472905355 9780472077762 9780472057764 186 open access |
| spellingShingle | intersexual, futanari, hermaphrodite, sexology, Takabatake Kasho, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Shimizu Shikin, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Decadence, Naturalism, ryoseiguyu, Ringu, Suzuki Koji, Kataomoi, Higashino Keigo, Takehisa Yumeji, Habuto Eiji, Magnus Hirschfeld, Michel Foucault thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Winston, Leslie Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art |
| title | Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art |
| title_full | Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art |
| title_short | Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art |
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| topic | intersexual, futanari, hermaphrodite, sexology, Takabatake Kasho, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Shimizu Shikin, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Decadence, Naturalism, ryoseiguyu, Ringu, Suzuki Koji, Kataomoi, Higashino Keigo, Takehisa Yumeji, Habuto Eiji, Magnus Hirschfeld, Michel Foucault thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism |
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