Regimes of Desire

Series

• Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Thomas Baudinette is Lecturer in International Studies, Macquarie University, Australia.

Praise / Awards

• “Written in an exceptionally lucid and accessible style, this excellent innovative study assembles a set of case studies of various modalities of gay print, visual and digital media in contemporary Japan to convincingly argue that, despite a recent diversification in some cultural patterns of heterosexual masculinity in Japanese society, the country’s highly mediatised gay culture has come to be dominated by a heteronormative regime of desire that fetishises one particular model of heterosexual masculinity.”
  —Peter Jackson, Emeritus Professor of Thai History and Cultural Studies, Australian National University
  
   
• “This research is innovative, thoughtful and inspirational. Regimes of Desire makes an original contribution to the study of queer identity in Japan.”
  —Christopher Pullen, Associate Professor of Media and Inclusivity, Bournemouth University
• “Finally! A finely written, nuanced, up-to-date series of psychohistories about the ways that young, gay Tokyoites feel about masculinity and their sexual orientation, and the ways that those feelings are formulated through and against different types of media—pornography, manga, TV, hook-up apps, and other forms of online social networks. Baudinette probes deeply by talking to frequenters of Shinjuku Ni-Chome, the biggest of Tokyo’s various queer neighborhoods, and teases out the implications of their answers, sometimes to surprising conclusions.”
  —Jeffrey Angles, Author of Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Japanese Modernist Literature, Professor at Western Michigan University