Sabine Frühstück delves into the complex intersections of the body, power, and culture in modern Japan. Her work investigates how power structures are both shaped and challenged through embodiment, sexuality, and memory. She examines how these concepts have been deployed and manipulated within Japanese society during its modernization. Her scholarship offers a penetrating look into social controls and gendered identities in Japan.
This dynamic survey describes the changing manifestations of sexes, genders, and sexualities in Japanese society from the 1860s to the present day. Drawing on historical, sociological, ethnographic and visual sources, Sabine Fruhstuck considers the experiences of an evolving spectrum of boundary-crossing individuals and identities.