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Author Abe, Hideko.

Title Queer Japanese : gender and sexual identities through linguistic practices / Hideko Abe
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents Queer Etiquette?: Advice Columns with a Difference -- Lesbian Bar Talk -- Cross-Dressing Speech: The "Real" Womanhood of Men -- Performing the Performative in the Theater of the Queer -- Queen's Speech and the Playful Plundering of Women's Language -- Queen's Speech as a Private Matter
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193) and index
Subject Gay men -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Identity
Gay men -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Language
Lesbians -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Identity
Lesbians -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Language
Anthropological linguistics -- Japan -- Tokyo
Gender identity -- Japan -- Tokyo
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Anthropological linguistics
Gay men -- Identity
Gay men -- Language
Gender identity
Lesbians -- Identity
Lesbians -- Language
Manners and customs
Homosexueller
Lesbe
Transsexueller
Sprache
SUBJECT Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85135861
Subject Japan -- Tokyo
Tokio
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230106161
0230106161
1349384070
9781349384075