M Yuen
Biographic Data
| ID | 41012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Yuen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yuen |
| SIGNATURE | YUEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0485-2206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond “correctness
While browsing my Facebook feed on an early summer day in May 2017, a post with the trigger warning "inconsistent use of pronouns" grabbed my attention. The post, shared within a private Facebook group for (foreign) LGBTQIA+ individuals and allies living in Japan, featured an article recently published in The New York Times. Titled "Japanese Transgender Politician is Showing 'I Exist Here'," the article focuses on Hosoda Tomoya, a Japanese trans …
Unqueer queers—drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan
In the last twenty years, Japanese transgender people have acquired increased visibility in mainstream Japanese society. Notwithstanding that, female-to-male (FTM) trans people continue to be misunderstood by the Japanese public, and largely underrepresented in Anglophone academic scholarship. This paper therefore seeks to account for one aspect of FTM cultural life in present-day Japan that has largely remained invisible to mainstream society. D…
When erotic meets cute
This article addresses a conspicuous phenomenon within the burgeoning cute cultures of contemporary Japan – namely, pre-adult women adopting a fashion style that is simultaneously cute and hyper-sexy. While both cuteness and hypersexuality stand in contradiction to the norms of Japan’s patriarchal gender system, public amalgamations of these two elements constitute a trend initiated by and for some contemporary young Japanese women. Through a ser…
From men to ‘boys’—The cooking danshi in Japanese mass media
When erotic meets cute
This article addresses a conspicuous phenomenon within the burgeoning cute cultures of contemporary Japan – namely, pre-adult women adopting a fashion style that is simultaneously cute and hyper-sexy. While both cuteness and hypersexuality stand in contradiction to the norms of Japan’s patriarchal gender system, public amalgamations of these two elements constitute a trend initiated by and for some contemporary young Japanese women. Through a ser…
From men to ‘boys’—The cooking danshi in Japanese mass media
From men to ‘boys’—The cooking danshi in Japanese mass media
When erotic meets cute
This article addresses a conspicuous phenomenon within the burgeoning cute cultures of contemporary Japan – namely, pre-adult women adopting a fashion style that is simultaneously cute and hyper-sexy. While both cuteness and hypersexuality stand in contradiction to the norms of Japan’s patriarchal gender system, public amalgamations of these two elements constitute a trend initiated by and for some contemporary young Japanese women. Through a ser…
Unqueer queers—drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan
In the last twenty years, Japanese transgender people have acquired increased visibility in mainstream Japanese society. Notwithstanding that, female-to-male (FTM) trans people continue to be misunderstood by the Japanese public, and largely underrepresented in Anglophone academic scholarship. This paper therefore seeks to account for one aspect of FTM cultural life in present-day Japan that has largely remained invisible to mainstream society. D…
Beyond “correctness
While browsing my Facebook feed on an early summer day in May 2017, a post with the trigger warning "inconsistent use of pronouns" grabbed my attention. The post, shared within a private Facebook group for (foreign) LGBTQIA+ individuals and allies living in Japan, featured an article recently published in The New York Times. Titled "Japanese Transgender Politician is Showing 'I Exist Here'," the article focuses on Hosoda Tomoya, a Japanese trans …
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works)