Lecture 'Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo'
- For whom
- Employees , Students
- When
- 15-10-2024 from 12:30 to 14:00
- Where
- Faculty Room FLW, 1st floor, Blandijn, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- CRCG Centre for Research on Culture and Gender, BOCULT Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion, CARAM Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
- Contact
- chia.longman@ugent.be
- Website
- https://www.crcg.ugent.be/
Marta Fanasca (Univ. of Bologna) investigates the novel “emotion business” of dansō escorting in Japan as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression.
Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions and fears of young crossdresser escorts negotiating their identity with and within the Japanese society, as well as those of crossdresser escorts’ clients: women looking for the perfect man and the opportunity to experience emotions.
Combining anthropological, sociological and gender studies theories with an ethnographic approach, Fanasca argues that dansō crossdressing is the tool used by a sector of Japanese women to resist the heteronormative and patriarchal society and its expectations, while reinventing themselves and their identities looking for self-actualization.