Young Men and Masculinities in Japanese Media (Un-) Conscious Hegemony /

• Main Author: Saladin, Ronald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Culture.; Gender.; Communication.; Ethnology-Asia.; Culture and Gender.; Media and Communication.; Asian Culture.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of two Japanese men's magazines, ChokiChoki and Men's egg, analysed as representative examples of the genre of Japanese lifestyle magazines for young men. Employing both qualitative and quantitative content analysis, focusing on topics ranging f...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Theoretical Preface and Methodology
• Organizing Japan's gender regime
• Male magazines on the rise - Development of the Japanese magazine market
• Renegotiating Japan's everyday life and gender
• Be attractive, be gentle, be a man - Love, relationships, and partnerships
• You've got to do what a man's got to do... or not? - Sexual intercourse
• Conclusion - Adjusting Gender and (Re)Constructing Hegemonic Masculinity.