1. Introduction / Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta
2. Hegemonic gender in Japanese as a foreign language education : Australian perspectives / Yuriko Nagata and Kristen Sullivan
3. origins of "queer studies" in postwar Japan / Hitoshi Ishida, Mark McLelland and Takanori Murakami
4. Transgendering shojo shosetsu : girls' inter-text/sex-uality / Tomoko Aoyama
5. From The Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian : western translations and Japanese lesbian identities / Beverly Curran and James Welker
6. politics of okama and onabe : uses and abuses of terminology regarding homosexuality and transgender / Wim Lunsing
7. Salarymen doing queer : gay men and the heterosexual public sphere / Mark McLelland
8. Being male in a female world : masculinity and gender in Okinawan shamanism / Matthew Allen
9. "Understanding through the body" : the masquerades of Mishima Yukio and Morimura Yasumasa / Vera Mackie
10. introduction to men's studies / Kimio Ito
11. Rethinking Japanese masculinities : recent research trends / Futoshi Taga
12. Salarymen doing straight : heterosexual men and the dynamics of gender conformity / Romit Dasgupta
13. Feminist futures in Japan : exploring the work of Haruka Yoko and Kitahara Minori / Laura Dales
14. Commodified romance in a Tokyo host club / Akiko Takeyama.
