Episode 62 - New Masculine Identities and Pop Culture in 1980s Japan

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2014

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sam Timinsky will be joining us for another guest podcast, covering changes in masculine identity in the wake of Japan's economic bubble and bust in the 1980s and 1990s.

As a reminder, there will be no new episode next week; the week after that we will resume normal service.

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0:00.0	Hello again everyone.
0:04.0	Hello again everyone. I hope you all enjoyed my previous lecture on women's history and that you will find this one interesting as well.
0:24.1	So last time we learned a little bit about women's history and labor activism.
0:28.2	This time we will also be talking about gendered issues, but in a very different way.
0:34.6	For some time now, much of the public seems to view histories that deal with gender and with gender issues to be primarily women's history.
0:38.2	And for some time, this is certainly the case. But over the last 25 years or so, histories of gender and sexuality have evolved to grapple with male parties as well.
0:43.8	And considering the massive coverage issues of sexuality and the LGBT community have been getting
0:47.9	in the media lately, I thought that it would behoove us to grapple with some of the issues
0:51.4	related to sexuality and gender directly related to the world in which we live today.
0:55.6	Several images accompany this lecture that can be found on Isaac's blog at History of Japanpodcast.wordpress.com.
1:02.0	Some things that you should keep in mind while listening to this lecture is that I am trying to argue to you several things.
1:07.1	The gender norms of all sorts are learned and it's then made to seem natural through socialization
1:12.3	and cultural politics that media has a big role to play in that process and finally that male sexuality and norms are
1:18.6	just susceptible to these forces as female and moreover that they are not always as simple as heterosexual
1:23.7	or male female these ideals are complex and there is a lot of gray area.
1:30.3	For further readings on the issues discussion in this lecture, I would suggest starting
1:34.2	with the essays in idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture, edited by Patrick W.
1:38.8	G. G. Carlin, the essays in media and consumption in Japan, edited by Liz Scove and
1:48.0	Brian Moran. And the essays in Japan's changing generation are Japanese, are young people creating a
1:53.8	new society, edited by Gordon Matthews and Bruce White. These essays are much more on the
1:59.2	cultural media, cultural, and media studies
2:01.7	side of things, but as of yet, there has been a little history written on these topics.
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