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In “Gender Militarized” Frühstück deals with how masculinity is created, constituted, and negotiated in present-day Japan. She describes how Japanese “militarized masculinity” constantly evolves, is culturally specific, contested, debated and resisted. In this talk, she argues that “militarized masculinity” draws from various kinds of manhood, depends on the subordination of alternative modes of manhood, cuts itself off from other modes of gender and is informed by past and present Japanese and non-Japanese militarisms as well as American militarism on its soil. At the core of Frühstück’s analysis are the processes of institutional coercion and the expectations and struggles of enlisted personnel and officers in Japan’s armed forces to create a “militarized gender” that is distinct from other types of masculinity. Sabine Frühstück is an associate professor of modern Japanese cultural studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2003); “Managing the Truth of Sex in Imperial Japan” in the Journal of Asian Studies (2000); and (with Eyal Ben-Ari) “’Now We Show It All!’ Normalization and the Management of Violence in Japan’s Armed Forces” in the Journal of Japanese Studies (2002), among other articles and book chapters as well as two co-edited books. She is currently working on a book about military-societal relations in modern and contemporary Japan entitled Avant-garde: The Army of the Future. |
