Publications

Here you will find a collection of our members’ publications on gender, sexuality, and queer studies in English, German, and Japanese.

  • 2024: Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. “Nationalism and Queer Politics in Postwar Japan.” In: Tanaka, K., Selin, H. (eds) Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan. Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36331-3_30
  • 2023: Kobayashi, Ami & Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. “Surviving under the “hidden curriculum”: The struggles of LGBTQ+ JET teachers in Japanese rural areas“, Studia Orientalia, 124, S145-161.
  • 2023: Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. “Queers and National Anxiety: Discourses on Gender and Sexuality from Anti-Gender Backlash Movements in Japan since the 2000s.” in Stefanie Mayer and Judith Goetz (eds.) Global Perspectives on Anti-Feminism: Far-Right and Religious Attacks on Equality and Diversity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 182-201. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.7358671.14
  • 2018: Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. “Mishima Yukio and the Homoeroticisation of the Emperor of Japan.” Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2(2), 23: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/3891  
  • 2018: Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. “Contradictory Discourses on Sexual Normality and National Identity in Japanese Modernity.” Sexuality & Culture. 22(2): 593–613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-017-9485-z