Status Updates From Recreating Japanese Men (Vo...

Expresses the transition of views on masculinity from the Warring States instability to the Great Peace of Edo period. The change in violence was not just a samurai phenomenon, but also noted in the lifelong diary of a successful merchant.

Although warriors enjoyed shooting guns at targets and in recreational hunts, to have the gun associated with one’s profession risked a loss of status, something that was always a source of anxiety during the long Edo peace.

By rejecting the identification of shogun with weapons, they contested a masculinity that had defined manliness in warrior society.

--The umlaut fail in the author's name makes me sad :(

In addition, ours is a moment at which a number of analytical opposites—including sex/gender, human/cyborg, body/mind—seem to be more resistant to dichotomization than ever before in ways that challenge notions of hegemony and erode the iconic status of previously existing figures.

In contrast to a socially engaged masculinity, the modern boy of the interwar years sought individual fulfillment by getting in touch with his feminine side in a display of androgyny that horrified government officials and social critics.

Men in the past (that is, before modernity) conceived of masculinity primarily in terms of maturity while taking their manhood for granted. In other words, the history of masculinity before the late nineteenth century is primarily one of maturity envisioned, struggled for, fallen short of, or achieved.

Men in the past (that is, before modernity) conceived of masculinity primarily in terms of maturity while taking their manhood for granted. In other words, the history of masculinity before the late nineteenth century is primarily one of maturity envisioned, struggled for, fallen short of, or achieved.