Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities – Christopher REED

Abstract

Bachelor Japanists offers readers an engaging and richly narrated look at Western “Japanism” of the 19^th and 20^th century—scholarly, collectionist, and creative engagements with Japanese culture, religion, art, and aesthetics—which, Christopher Reed argues, Western individuals and coteries used to construct queer “bachelor” identities, both male and female, eschewing marriage and evading the domestic norms of their day. The term bachelor, Reed underscores, is not [...]