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| | Intersections: Review: Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600 - 1950 |
 | | Moreover, although the discussion is underpinned by a consciously social-constructionist approach to sexuality, one of its major strengths lies with its avoidance of the imposing of 'loaded' twentieth-century categories and definitions of sexuality—hence, the lack of terms like 'homosexuality' or 'bisexuality'. |
 | | Within the framework of this, male-male sexuality as depicted in popular, legal, and medical discourses underwent a significant shift, as 'identity' increasingly came to be defined by gender and sexual-preference, rather than status and/or region, as had been the case over the Edo period. |
 | | Furthermore, the configuring of sexuality within the framework of these imported systems of medical and legal knowledge, led to the replacement of the pre-Meiji discourses of shudô and nanshoku with dôseiai (literally 'same-sex love', or homosexuality as a category), and, as happened in the West, the birth of the 'deviant homosexual' individual. |
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