Mark Mclelland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 614092 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Mclelland |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Mclelland |
| FIRMA | MCLELLAND M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Robert Kramm, Sanitized Sex
Intimate Japan
Reviewed by: Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict ed. by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook Mark Mclelland (bio) Intimate Japan: Ethnographies of Closeness and Conflict. Edited by Allison Alexy and Emma E. Cook. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2019. xii, 270 pages. $68.00, cloth; $28.00, paper. As the editors of this volume note, intimacy has recently emerged as a topic of academic research, with a growing number of books an…
From Queer Studies on Asia to Asian Queer Studies
My history of engagement with Asian Queer Studies is almost contemporaneous with the history of the journal Sexualities whose contribution to the field of sexuality studies we are currently celebrating. This short piece looks at the emergence of the field of Asian Queer Studies across the past 20 years and reflects my own research interests and biases to some extent (hence mostly addressing East Asia). I hope it will at least give a sense of how …
‘Not in front of the parents!’ Young people, sexual literacies and intimate citizenship in the internet age
Clause 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right ‘to seek, receive or impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in art or in any other media of the child's voice’. However, there is one area in which this directive is constrained in various countries by domestic regulations curtailing children's access to information. That are…
Early challenges to multilingualism on the Internet
In today's hyper-mediated world where computer software can deal seamlessly with a variety of the world's languages and scripts, it is difficult to recall the seemingly insurmountable computing problems raised by “Han” character-based scripts such as Chinese, Japanese (and to a lesser extent, Korean). In the early days of networked computing, some commentators even argued that the continued use of Han characters was a lost cause, and could only r…
Young people, online fandom and the perils of child pornography legislation in Australia
In 1971 the editors of Oz magazine were prosecuted for obscenity in a London courtroom for their infamous ‘School Kids Issue’, almost the entire contents of which had been created by a team of young people. In today’s Web 2.0 environment, similar kinds of content to that featured in the magazine is created by young people and made ubiquitous on fan websites. In particular ‘manips’ (manipulated images) of all kinds of pop culture heroes from boy b…
The End of Cool Japan
Introduction: Negotiating in Research and Teaching Mark McLelland Death Note, Student Crimes, and the Power of Universities in the Global Spread of Manga Alisa Freedman Scholar Girl Meets Manga Maniac, Media Specialist, and Cultural Gatekeeper Laura Miller Must We Burn Eromanga? On Trying Obscenity in the Courtroom and the Classroom Kirsten Cather Manga, Anime and Child Pornography Law in Canada Sharalyn Orbaugh Lolicon Guy: Some Observations on …
New media, censorship and gender
The widespread take-up of Internet technologies from the mid-1990s has proven challenging to nation states that seek to limit access to ideas, information or images that the political class considers dangerous or inappropriate for the general population. As a largely deterritorialized technology, the Internet allows access to material that circumvents national legislatures and ignores local ratings systems and in so doing facilitates all kinds of…
Japan’s queer cultures
When reflecting on the history of “queer” or non-normative, non-heterosexual sexual relations in the Japanese context, it is important to consider that same-sex sexuality, particularly as practiced between men, has only comparatively recently come to be considered unusual and been consigned to the pathological side of a “normal”/”abnormal” divide. During the Edo period (1603-1867) there was no normative connection made between gender and sexual p…
An Introduction to “Boys Love” in Japan
This introductory chapter briefly examines Boys Love (BL)—a Japanese genre of fictional media focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male characters, typically aimed at a female audience and usually created by female authors. This tradition fully developed into a self-conscious literary tradition devoted to extolling the charm of youthful male beauty during the Edo period (1603–1868). Confucianism saw women as inferior and not as su…
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
Boys Love (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists. By the late 1970s, many amateur women fans were getting involved and creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these encouraged a surge in the number of commer…
‘How to Sex'? The Contested Nature of Sexuality in Japan
There has been a tendency in English and other European-language reporting on Japan to stress the strangeness and otherness of Japanese values, particularly in regard to sexuality. Reports of Japanese immorality go back as far as the sixteenth century when the first Jesuit visitors to the country were appalled by open displays of cross-dressing and male-male sexual relations (Cooper 1965). After the ‘opening’ of Japan in the mid-nineteenth centur…
Introduction
Over the last two or three decades, sexuality studies has come to be seen as a distinctive field of academic inquiry. What is sometimes referred to as the ‘new sexuality studies’ is distinguished from earlier paradigms which looked at human sexuality through the prisms of biology, medical science, psychoanalysis, psychology and what was known as ‘sexology’. Discussing the range of sexual concepts and practices that occur in the countries of East …
Sex, censorship and media regulation in Japan
In this chapter the author offers a historical overview of the regulation of sexual content primarily in relation to the Japanese print media. The Edo period, sometimes referred to as Japan’s early modern period, lasted from 1603 to 1868. The 1868 Meiji Restoration saw the emperor restored to a position of authority at the head of a constitutional monarchy and Edo was renamed Tokyo. The number of obscenity cases brought before the courts since th…
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia
The Soul of Anime
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story." Asian Studies Review, 38(1), pp. 144–145
Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia
Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation
The idea for this book came about while seated reviewing some early postwar publications in the unfortunately named "Perverts Museum" in Kagaurazaka, Tokyo, in 2004. I was at that time collecting documents about early postwar sexual minority subcultures for my book Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age. Although I was mainly interested in on hetersexual expressions of sex and romance at the time, one illustration in a very dog-eare…
Sex and Censorship During the Occupation of Japan
This chapter entitled "Sex and Censorship During the Occupation of Japan" is excerpted from Mark McLelland's Love, Sex and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation (Palgrave MacMillan 2012). The book examines the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War. Although there have been other stud…
Death of the "Legendary Okama" Tōgō Ken
What's wrong with being a fag? What's shameful about being a fag? Why is it wrong for a man to love a man? Why is it wrong for a woman to love a woman? What is shameful is living a lie. What is shameful is not loving others." Tōgō Ken campaign slogan
Australia’s ‘child-abuse material’ legislation, internet regulation and the juridification of the imagination
This article investigates the implications of Australia’s prohibition of ‘child-abuse material’ (including cartoons, animation, drawings and text) for Australian fan communities of animation, comics and gaming (ACG) and slash fiction. It is argued that current legislation is out of synch with the new communicative environment brought about by the internet since a large portion of the fans producing and trading in these images are themselves minor…
Internationalizing Internet Studies
"Kissing is a symbol of democracy!"
IN 1943 AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST Margaret Mead was in Britain on an important wartime mission: her task was to study the interactions between American servicemen and local residents. In the monograph she published describing the experience Mead uncovered an important cultural difference between the two societies, a source of continual misunderstanding and conflict: English girls didn't know how to date! When it came to dating, a practice that Mead…
Australia's Proposed Internet Filtering System
This paper investigates the implications of the federal government's proposed internet filtering system in the light of Australia's blanket prohibition on 'child pornography' (including cartoons, animation, drawings, digitally manipulated photographs and text) for Australian fan communities of ACG and slash. ACG/slash fan groups in Australia and elsewhere routinely consume, produce and disseminate material containing 'prohibited content' (i.e. fe…
AsiaPacifiQueer
This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian Pacific region in order to move beyond definitions and understandings of sexuality that rely on Western assumptions. The diverse studies in AsiaPacifiQueer demonstrate convincingly that in the realm of sexualities, globalization results in creative and cultural admixture rather than a unilateral imposition of the western values and forms of sexual culture…
Virtual Ethnography
After English and Chinese, Japanese is the most widely represented language on the internet and yet few studies have been made of how communities in Japan engage with this new technology. This article looks at the internet both as a virtual space in which Japanese and foreign gay men can meet as well as a means for making offline assignations. The author reflects on his own use of the internet in his research on gay communities in Japan, suggesti…
Is there a Japanese 'gay identity
This paper investigates the widespread representation of (mainly male) homosexuality in a variety of Japanese popular cultural media. Generally, representation of homosexuality in Japan is situated in the 'entertainment world' and male homosexuality, in particular, is often conflated with transsexuality and transgenderism. Discussion of homosexuality as a 'lifestyle choice' or in terms of 'sexual rights' is extremely rare, even in the Japanese ga…
Australia’s ‘child-abuse material’ legislation, internet regulation and the juridification of the imagination
This article investigates the implications of Australia’s prohibition of ‘child-abuse material’ (including cartoons, animation, drawings and text) for Australian fan communities of animation, comics and gaming (ACG) and slash fiction. It is argued that current legislation is out of synch with the new communicative environment brought about by the internet since a large portion of the fans producing and trading in these images are themselves minor…
Sexual minorities and human rights in Japan
Contemporary Japan maintains longstanding and well-documented traditions of same-sex eroticism and yet the terminology for describing these traditions as well as the contexts and identities through which they have been expressed have changed greatly since Japan's opening to the West at the end of the nineteenth century. These changes have been most striking in the post-war period, when new rights-centred discourses concerning issues of sexual ide…
The Role of the ‘ tōjisha ’ in Current Debates about Sexual Minority Rights in Japan
‘Speaking as a tōjisha’ has become an important strategy in establishing ‘correct knowledge’ about sexual minority cultures in contemporary Japan. Originally developed in a legal context where it referred to the ‘parties’ in court proceedings, in the 1970s tōjisha was taken up by citizens' groups campaigning for the right of self determination for the ‘parties concerned’ facing discrimination and has become a central concept for all minority self…
Race' on the Japanese internet
This article investigates discourse about 'race' on the Japanese internet, particularly regarding resident Koreans and their relationship to the Japanese. One board relating to arguments about Korea on the notorious 2-channeru (Channel 2) bulletin board system, Japan's most visited internet site, is investigated, since it is one of the main public forums in which racial vilification takes place, perpetrated by both Japanese and Korean posters. Na…
From the stage to the clinic
This paper looks at the transformation of male-to-female transgender identities in Japan since the Second World War. The development of print media aimed at a transgender readership is outlined, as is the development of bars, clubs and sex venues where transgendered men sought both partners and commercial opportunities. The origin of various transgender ‘folk categories’ such as okama, gei bōi, burūbōi and nyūhāfu is discussed and their dependenc…
The International yaoi boys’ love fandom and the regulation of virtual child pornography
The Love Between 'Beautiful Boys' in Japanese Women's Comics
This paper investigates why the love between 'beautiful youths' (bishoonen) should have become one of the most recurrent romantic tropes in comics both written by and aimed at Japanese women. I argue that women writers draw upon mainstream representations of homosexual men as somehow feminine, but treat this stereotype favourably, creating the figure of the 'beautiful youth' an androgynous being who possesses a feminine sensibility and yet experi…
Early challenges to multilingualism on the Internet
In today's hyper-mediated world where computer software can deal seamlessly with a variety of the world's languages and scripts, it is difficult to recall the seemingly insurmountable computing problems raised by “Han” character-based scripts such as Chinese, Japanese (and to a lesser extent, Korean). In the early days of networked computing, some commentators even argued that the continued use of Han characters was a lost cause, and could only r…
The Soul of Anime
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story." Asian Studies Review, 38(1), pp. 144–145
The World of Yaoi
This paper looks at the recent explosion of cultural concern over child sexual abuse and child pornography, particularly as it relates to the trading of such images via the internet. It is noted that legislation originally enacted to prohibit the sexualized representation of actual children has recently been extended to include fictional representations and in Australia includes text as well as graphics. Taking the online global fandom dedicated …
Young people, online fandom and the perils of child pornography legislation in Australia
In 1971 the editors of Oz magazine were prosecuted for obscenity in a London courtroom for their infamous ‘School Kids Issue’, almost the entire contents of which had been created by a team of young people. In today’s Web 2.0 environment, similar kinds of content to that featured in the magazine is created by young people and made ubiquitous on fan websites. In particular ‘manips’ (manipulated images) of all kinds of pop culture heroes from boy b…
Live Life More Selfishly
No Climax, No Point, No Meaning? Japanese Women's Boy-Love Sites on the Internet
Boy love (shoonen' ai) in Japanese does not refer to the love many young Japanese women feel for male teen idols, but instead refers to the homoerotic attraction the male heroes in a genre of Japanese women's manga (comics) feel for each other. Commencing in the early 1970s, women's manga began to describe love stories between “beautiful boys,” culminating in the mid-1980s in a genre termed YAOI (an acronym meaning “no climax, no point, no meanin…
Out and About on Japan's Gay Net
This paper looks at the development of media aimed at same- sex desiring men in Japan. The development of 'gay' magazines in the early 1970s is outlined, although terms such as 'gay' and 'homosexual' which were produced in a Western context are shown to have undergone a shift of meaning when imported to Japan. Many of the functions of these Japanese gay magazines are shown to have been taken over by gay sites on the internet. The variety of gay m…
No Climax, No Point, No Meaning? Japanese Women's Boy-Love Sites on the Internet
Boy love (shoonen' ai) in Japanese does not refer to the love many young Japanese women feel for male teen idols, but instead refers to the homoerotic attraction the male heroes in a genre of Japanese women's manga (comics) feel for each other. Commencing in the early 1970s, women's manga began to describe love stories between “beautiful boys,” culminating in the mid-1980s in a genre termed YAOI (an acronym meaning “no climax, no point, no meanin…
Is there a Japanese 'gay identity
This paper investigates the widespread representation of (mainly male) homosexuality in a variety of Japanese popular cultural media. Generally, representation of homosexuality in Japan is situated in the 'entertainment world' and male homosexuality, in particular, is often conflated with transsexuality and transgenderism. Discussion of homosexuality as a 'lifestyle choice' or in terms of 'sexual rights' is extremely rare, even in the Japanese ga…
The Love Between 'Beautiful Boys' in Japanese Women's Comics
This paper investigates why the love between 'beautiful youths' (bishoonen) should have become one of the most recurrent romantic tropes in comics both written by and aimed at Japanese women. I argue that women writers draw upon mainstream representations of homosexual men as somehow feminine, but treat this stereotype favourably, creating the figure of the 'beautiful youth' an androgynous being who possesses a feminine sensibility and yet experi…
Publications briefly noted
SUEHIRO KITAGUCHI (trans. Alastair McLauchlan). An Introduction to the Buraku Issue: Questions and Answers. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1999. 213 pp. £35.00, hardcover. WANG LING‐CHI and WANG GUNGWU (eds). The Chinese Diaspora: selected Essays. Two Volumes. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998. Vol. 1: xiv, 287 pp. US$39.00, hardcover; Vol. 2: xii, 300 pp. US$39.00, hardcover. JOHN S. BOWMAN (ed). Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and …
Live Life More Selfishly
Live Life More Selfishly
The Newhalf Net
Virtual Ethnography
After English and Chinese, Japanese is the most widely represented language on the internet and yet few studies have been made of how communities in Japan engage with this new technology. This article looks at the internet both as a virtual space in which Japanese and foreign gay men can meet as well as a means for making offline assignations. The author reflects on his own use of the internet in his research on gay communities in Japan, suggesti…
Japanese Queerscapes
Interpretation and Orientalism
Interpretation and Orientalism: Outing Japan’s Sexual Minorities to the English-Speaking World The growing visibility of Japanese gay men and lesbians who articulate their identities in a manner similar to activists in the West has been heightened by two recent English books Queer Japan and Coming Out in Japan. While acknowledging the need to listen to a plurality of voices from Japan, this essay critiques the manner in which the coming-out narra…
Japanese Cybercultures
Living More “Like Oneself”
This paper looks at the development of transgender identities in twentieth-century Japan, from their “professional” antecedents in the kabuki theater, through post-war paradigms based in the entertainment world, to recent notions of “amateur” transgenderism and cross-dressing. It is argued that early paradigms of transgenderism centered on occupational categories and that, despite modern understandings that associate transgender performance with …
From the stage to the clinic
This paper looks at the transformation of male-to-female transgender identities in Japan since the Second World War. The development of print media aimed at a transgender readership is outlined, as is the development of bars, clubs and sex venues where transgendered men sought both partners and commercial opportunities. The origin of various transgender ‘folk categories’ such as okama, gei bōi, burūbōi and nyūhāfu is discussed and their dependenc…
Salarymen doing queer
As various chapters in this collection show, many Japanese people have adopted a wide range of sexual and gender identities and space has always existed for the performance of non-hegemonic sex and gender roles in Japanese society. Yet, as Ito ̄ and Dasgupta point out, hegemonic notions of how men and women should behave have been and remain strong in Japan. Much earlier work on Japanese gender has focused on the particular constraints felt by wo…
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan
Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities. Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have questioned received notions and challenged social norms r…
Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age
Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents, breaks important new ground in this field. It examines gay life in the Japanese Pacific War, addresses transgender and lesbian as well as…
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan
This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for increasing gay and lesbian visibility in western countries …
The World of Yaoi
This paper looks at the recent explosion of cultural concern over child sexual abuse and child pornography, particularly as it relates to the trading of such images via the internet. It is noted that legislation originally enacted to prohibit the sexualized representation of actual children has recently been extended to include fictional representations and in Australia includes text as well as graphics. Taking the online global fandom dedicated …
Japan’s original ‘gay boom’
In recent years, the internationalization of gay, lesbian and transgender identities and cultures has been the focus of at times heated debate in both popular and academic contexts.1 Some have taken the development of lesbian and gay media, particularly literature and film, as well as characteristically Western modes of activism and visibility such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) organizations, film festivals and parades …
Queer Voices from Japan
Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These essays trace the evolution of queer voices in Japan with analyses of the presence of homosexuality in the Japanese Imperial Army…
In the Company of Men
Reviewed by: In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature Mark McLelland (bio) In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature. By Jim Reichert. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2006. xii, 282 pages. $60.00. At a recent annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, a graduate student friend was chatting with one of the organizers. He noted that he had enjoyed (his f…
The International yaoi boys’ love fandom and the regulation of virtual child pornography
Internet Domains between China and India
This paper critiques the current Anglophone bias in much Internet studies research and argues for an internationalization of Internet studies that takes account of the different histories, technologies and trajectories of Internet development in an Asian context
Socio-cultural Aspects of Mobile Communication Technologies in Asia and the Pacific
David Gauntlett, in his foreword to Japanese Cybercultures, notes the tendency in the anglophone West to ‘assume that people in other countries, using other languages, are probably doing things with Internet technology that are pretty similar to those applications we are familiar with’ (Gauntlett, 2003, p. xii; emphasis in the original). However, as that collection goes on to make clear, particularly regarding mobile Internet applications, this i…
Sociology (40 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (38 obras) · Gender Studies (33 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (31 obras) · Political science (29 obras) · History (25 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Media studies (18 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Art (15 obras)