Open AccessBachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities – Christopher REED
Author(s) -
Tyrus Miller
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2496-1868
DOI - 10.32926/2020.9.r.tyr.bache
Subject(s) - bachelor , queer , construct (python library) , gender studies , western culture , sociology , art , aesthetics , history , archaeology , computer science , programming language
Bachelor Japanists offers readers an engaging and richly narrated look at Western “Japanism” of the 19th and 20th century—scholarly, collectionist, and creative engagements with Japanese culture, religion, art, and aesthetics—which, Christopher Reed argues, Western individuals and coteries used to construct queer “bachelor” identities, both male and female, eschewing marriage and evading the domestic norms of their day. The term bachelor, Reed underscores, is not [...]