Genders, transgenders, and sexualities in Japan

1. Introduction / Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta

2. Hegemonic gender in Japanese as a foreign language education : Australian perspectives / Yuriko Nagata and Kristen Sullivan

3. origins of "queer studies" in postwar Japan / Hitoshi Ishida, Mark McLelland and Takanori Murakami

4. Transgendering shojo shosetsu : girls' inter-text/sex-uality / Tomoko Aoyama

5. From The Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian : western translations and Japanese lesbian identities / Beverly Curran and James Welker

6. politics of okama and onabe : uses and abuses of terminology regarding homosexuality and transgender / Wim Lunsing

7. Salarymen doing queer : gay men and the heterosexual public sphere / Mark McLelland

8. Being male in a female world : masculinity and gender in Okinawan shamanism / Matthew Allen

9. "Understanding through the body" : the masquerades of Mishima Yukio and Morimura Yasumasa / Vera Mackie

10. introduction to men's studies / Kimio Ito

11. Rethinking Japanese masculinities : recent research trends / Futoshi Taga

12. Salarymen doing straight : heterosexual men and the dynamics of gender conformity / Romit Dasgupta

13. Feminist futures in Japan : exploring the work of Haruka Yoko and Kitahara Minori / Laura Dales

14. Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club / Akiko Takeyama.