Beyond Common Sense

Autorentext
The Author Wim Marinus Lunsing received his PhD in Social Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University and has been Research Fellow at Tokyo University.

Klappentext
Beyond Common Sense is a study of life-styles in Japan that have hitherto remained largely unreported. In a society in which everyone is expected to marry, how do those who choose not to, or live at odds with the mainstream cope? After examining the social, cultural, and political aspects of marriage in Japanese society, Wim Lunsing investigates the different ways in which gays and lesbians, heterosexual single men and women, and others are regarded and relate to each other. Focusing on the relations between gender and sexuality, this book is a much needed contribution to Japanese studies.

Zusammenfassung
First published in 2001. This volume is based on the author's visit to Japan in Summer 1986 on his findings about some of the questions he was asked whilst there. He was 25 and these questions centred around asking if he was married or had a girlfriend, when in his homeland of the Netherlands he openly identified as gay. This research is an investigation of how gay and lesbian people, women's and men's liberationaists, singles and other people, such as transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites, whose ideas, feelings or lifestyles are at variance with Japanese constructions of marriage and inherently the construction of life, live in Japan.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Methods and Ethics; Chapter 3 Discourses and Politics of Marriage; Chapter 4 Trying to Fit: Homosexuality and Feminism in Marriage; Chapter 5 Private: Alternative Lifestyles; Chapter 6 Dealing with Society: Practical Problems, Passing and Coming Out; Chapter 7 Circles: Discussing Gender, Sex, and the Other and the Self; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

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