03150cam a2200517 4500 2720161433 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472905355 047290535X B0FTFH2LLV Amazon 5c2419a2-4e28-4e97-adc3-cf0f90500011 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12392505 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Winston, Leslie. Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art [Libby eBook]. University of Michigan Press, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Joris-Karl Huysmans. tanizaki jun'ichiro. Magnus Hirschfeld. Takabatake Kasho. Michel Foucault. Takehisa Yumeji. Higashino Keigo. Shimizu Shikin. hermaphrodite. intersexual. Suzuki Koji. Habuto Eiji. naturalism. ryoseiguyu. decadence. Sexology. Futanari. Kataomoi. Ringu. HTML:<p><i>Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art</i> explores the history of intersex or <i>futanari</i> figures in modern Japanese literature and culture to examine the provocative discourses that defied a sexual regime as the modern nation-state of Japan advanced its national and imperial designs. As sexologists and medical practitioners continued reinforcing categories of "male" and "female," "normal" and "pathological," intersex literary figures garnered attention because the perceived subject was expected to be male or female—any variation was unintelligible. Many of the same century-old tropes and societal attitudes of needing to "cure" intersex persist. At the same time the 1991 novel <i>Ringu</i> by Suzuki Kōji testifies to a denial of <i>futanari</i> subjectivity, while the 1998 Japanese horror film (<i>Ringu</i>) and its 2002 American remake (<i>The Ring</i>) erase intersex all together.<br /> <br /> Winston interrogates how the trope of the <i>futanari</i> is deployed for pragmatic or aesthetic purposes, thereby complicating the trajectory of the dominant sexological ideology of the time. Winston reads the figurative <i>futanari</i> in the works of Shimizu Shikin, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, and Takabatake Kashō, and reveals how the artists' different approaches to the <i>futanari</i> served their agendas and expressed views that challenged the dominant discourse on intersex.</p>. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5c2419a2-4e28-4e97-adc3-cf0f90500011&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5c2419a2-4e28-4e97-adc3-cf0f90500011&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)