{"product_id":"regimes-of-desire-thomas-baudinette-9780472132645","title":"Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo Volume 93","description":"Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city's gay male community. Typically understood as a \"safe space\" where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan's largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly heteronormative society, \u003ci\u003eRegimes of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that the neighborhood may not be as welcoming as previously depicted in prior literature. Through fieldwork observation and interviews with young men who regularly frequent the neighborhood's many bars, the book reveals that the district is instead a space where only certain performances of gay identity are considered desirable. In fact, the district is highly stratified, with Shinjuku Ni-chōme's bar culture privileging \"hard\" masculine identities as the only legitimate expression of gay desire and thus excluding all those men who supposedly \"fail\" to live up to these hegemonic gendered ideals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through careful analysis of media such as pornographic videos, manga comics, lifestyle magazines, and online dating services, this book argues that the commercial imperatives of the Japanese gay media landscape and the bar culture of Shinjuku Ni-chōme act together to limit the agency of young gay men so as to better exploit them economically. Exploring the direct impacts of media consumption on the lives of four key informants who frequent the district's gay bars in search of community, fun, and romance, \u003ci\u003eRegimes of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the complexity of Tokyo's most popular \"gay town\" and intervenes in debates over the changing nature of masculinity in contemporary Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Baudinette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472132644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472132645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Thomas Baudinette","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086710321407,"sku":"9780472132645","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9ddb508-7e7d-4bdd-a694-19ed2ba48a5e.jpg?v=1769096129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/regimes-of-desire-thomas-baudinette-9780472132645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}