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Article: William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan.(Book review)
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- Asian Ethnology
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- March 22, 2008
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William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. x + 234 pages. Bibliographical references, index. Hardcover, US$48.00; ISBN 978-0-8248-3036-6.
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WILLIAM R. LINDSEY's investigation of gender and sexuality in Japan's Tokugawa period (1600-1867) begins with an analysis of a print by woodblock artist Kitagawa Utamaro depicting a courtesan dreaming of her wedding procession. The multiple tensions of opposed female roles and conflicting values and the function of ritual as a bridging device between two disparate worlds depicted in this image is the impulse ...