Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo

Marta Fanasca

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781003802891
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sozialwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Genderforschung

Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo investigates the novel "emotion business" of dans? escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression.

Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions and fears of young crossdresser escorts negotiating their identity with and within the Japanese society, as well as those of crossdresser escorts' clients: women looking for the perfect man and the opportunity to experience emotions. Combining anthropological, sociological and gender studies theories with an ethnographic approach, Fanasca argues that dans? crossdressing is the tool used by a sector of Japanese women to resist the heteronormative and patriarchal society and its expectations, while reinventing themselves and their identities looking for self-actualization.

Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions Tokyo is an interdisciplinary work which will interest both scholars and students of Japanese studies, gender studies, and anthropology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Gender identity, performativity and fantasy: the case of dansō escorting
• 2 Walk like a man, talk like a man: working with dansō in Akihabara
• 3 Who are dansō?
• 4 Identity and human relationships
• 5 The customers’ perspective
• 6 Working with emotions – the negative aspects of the business
• Conclusion
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Index