Publications

Publication details [#32809]

Darling-Wolf, Fabienne. 2003. Male Bonding and Female Pleasure: Refining Masculinity in Japanese Popular Cultural Texts. Popular Communication 1 (2) : 73–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | identity negotiation | masculine | popular culture

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

1540-5702

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/elec

Annotation

This paper examines changing constructions of masculinity in Japanese popular cultural texts via a case study of one particularly popular male celebrity, the young male actor and singer Kimura Takuya.