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Serious historical study of same-sex relationships came of age in the 1980s, heralded by Kenneth J. Dover’s magisterial Greek Homosexuality, appearing in 1978.1 Given its careful scholarship and warm critical reception, Dover’s work... more
Serious historical study of same-sex relationships came of age in the 1980s, heralded by Kenneth J. Dover’s magisterial Greek Homosexuality, appearing in 1978.1 Given its careful scholarship and warm critical reception, Dover’s work emboldened historians to research homosexualities in classical antiquity, medieval and early modern Europe, and in the west in more recent times.2 Such works as John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, Michael Goodich’s The Unmentionable Vice, and Alan Bray’s Homosexuality in Renaissance England stimulated dozens of articles and monographs on sexual intimacy between males in the western world.3 Work on non-western homosexuality lagged behind, although only by about a decade. In 1990 Bret Hinsch published his Passions of the Cut Sleeve, an examination of male—male relationships in premodern China. Since then a number of works have addressed the question of homosexuality in India, Islamic societies, Africa, and Japan.
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authority was already an antique artifact no longer possessing the force of law, so the lesson was already ironic. Today and thanks to Keith Vincent I am prepared to read Sōseki’s masterwork as “a powerful example of two-timing homosocial... more
authority was already an antique artifact no longer possessing the force of law, so the lesson was already ironic. Today and thanks to Keith Vincent I am prepared to read Sōseki’s masterwork as “a powerful example of two-timing homosocial narrative” (p 151), but I do want to challenge the tone of what Vincent calls McClellan’s “insurmountable wall” that is “entirely his own invention” (p. 137). I would grant McClellan’s “historic moment” the same purchase on truth everyone’s generation insists upon, and not only because I personally experienced McClellan’s interpretation as benign in my own time. For Vincent, the term “paternalistic” is pejorative for all its heteronormative coercions, but it’s a word—in another, more recent divide, perhaps—that has largely been retired, like its close cousin “patriarchal,” from feminist and queer criticism due to its awkward clumsiness in describing how power actually circulates in modern societies and between classes and nations as well as generations. But we understand the helpful work the word once performed, as McClellan’s translation did in his own time, when his Kokoro was the fi rst novel to prove to the world modern Japanese literature had a masterpiece that spoke to, in another term we have largely retired for better or worse, the human condition for all of us.
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... to receive the expected acquiescence to the proposed US-Japan Treaty of Friendship (KanagawaTreaty). ... huge success.30 The depiction of Africans as subhuman - by white people who clearly ... looked like goddesses in... more
... to receive the expected acquiescence to the proposed US-Japan Treaty of Friendship (KanagawaTreaty). ... huge success.30 The depiction of Africans as subhuman - by white people who clearly ... looked like goddesses in Paradise'.31 By contrast, dark skin colour was associated ...
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This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to... more
This is the first full-length presentation of Japan's pre-industrial fishing culture and a careful application of anthropological method to historical research. Shows that Tokugawa Japan's fishing villages were critical to Japan's economic development, being key links between towns and farming communities.
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