Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Maping Out Theories of Sexuality and Sexual Fantasies -- L’ homme fatal and (Dis)empowered Women in Mari Mori’s Male Homosexual Trilogy -- Perverse Aesthetics in Taeko Kōno’s “Toddler-Hunting”: The Beating Father, the Beaten Boy, and a Female Masochist -- The Decadent Aesthetics of Male Homosexuality in Kanoko Okamoto’s “The Bygone World” -- Rieko Matsuura’s The Reverse Version: The Theme of Girl-Addresing-Girl and Male Homosexual Fantasies -- Perverse Sexualities, Perverse Desires: Representations of Female Fantasies and Yaoi Manga as Pornography Directed at Women -- “The Lovers’ Forest” by Mari Mori -- “The Bygone World” by Kanoko Okamoto -- “Chiyoko” by Rieko Matsuura -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

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Male homosexual narratives in various genres and media—from “high-brow” literature by distinguished female authors to “pornographic” comic books produced and distributed by amateurs—have attracted the attention of a number of cultural critics in Japan and abroad. This book represents the first extensive critical attempt to examine Japanese women's narratives of male homosexuality/homoeroticism, addressing not only popular culture genres, but also the considerable body of critically acclaimed literary works (with English translations of the original works). The result is an in-depth analysis of the ways in which female fantasies of male homosexuality/homoeroticism may be composed, acknowledged, and interrogated.