Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 1752
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press
- ISBN
- 9780824853549
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book, published by the leading publisher in Asian Studies, is the product of 5 years of intensive research, which involved reading and translating extremely difficult primary texts in classical Japanese (a character based language), as well reading secondary works in modern Japanese and English. It is the first comprehensive study of the body, gender and sexuality in medieval Japan. Through a strong interdisciplinary and comparativist approach, it explores the historical and cultural variability of the body, sexuality and gender, thereby challenging Euro-centric perspectives on these themes, and making an important contribution to questions at the heart of contemporary politics.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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