Booktalk: Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600 – 1950

In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder’s book has been hailed as “a remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization.”