Yaoi : Voices from the Margins

Tricia Abigail Santos, Fermin

doi:https://doi.org/10.18910/7429

Yaoi : Voices from the Margins

Tricia Abigail Santos, Fermin

年報人間科学, 2010, 31, 215-228

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タイトル	Yaoi : Voices from the Margins
著者	著者名 Tricia Abigail Santos, Fermin
キーワード等	yaoi
	subculture
	fan studies
	counterculture
	gender and sexuality
内容	研究ノート
抄録	The dynamics of conflict and resistance between subordinate social groups and hegemonic groups has always been a significant issue in the study of subcultures and fan activities. However, in the past decade, this theoretical perspective has been placed under critique by scholars from the social sciences, questioning whether subcultures and fan activities in reality always and necessarily express conflict and resistance towards hegemonic culture. This paper aims to illustrate this theoretical dilemma by examining the case of the yaoi genre and subculture in Japan. As we survey the various academic literature produced and fan accounts documented concerning the yaoi genre and subculture in Japan, we see that it has been often argued mainly through in-depth literary analyses of yaoi works that it serves as a tool and space for the dissenting voices against mainstream conceptions of gender and sexuality in Japan. Scholars and members of the subculture alike locate the beginnings of yaoi within the context of the Second Wave of Feminism in Japan during the 1970s, and constantly discuss how a pioneering group of women manga artists in this era devised the gender-bending conventions now used in this genre in order to reconcile their issues concerning equality among the sexes, the representations of and meaning imbued in the female body, and the nature of desire. However, in the final analysis, several questions still remain unresolved given the current state of knowledge regarding yaoi. This paper will consider these issues and in the end, propose several questions that the researcher will investigate in her future research plans.
出版者	大阪大学大学院人間科学研究科社会学・人間学・人類学研究室
	オオサカダイガクダイガクインニンゲンカガクケンキュウカシャカイガクニンゲンガクジンルイガクケンキュウシツ
	Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
収録物名	年報人間科学
収録物名	Annals of human sciences
巻(号)	31
ページ	215-228
刊行年月	2010
言語	英語
ハンドルURL	https://hdl.handle.net/11094/7429
DOI	https://doi.org/10.18910/7429
PISSN	02865149
NCID	AN0020011X
アクセス権	open access
出版タイプ	Version of Record
カテゴリ	紀要論文 Departmental Bulletin Paper
カテゴリ	年報人間科学 / 第31号

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