New book by Jonathan D. Mackintosh is publishedJonathan's first monograph is called Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan, published in September 2009. It looks at the constructions and representations of male-male sexuality and manliness as they were explored in the first years of Japan’s first specialist magazines catering to male-male sexuality: Barazoku (The Rose Tribes) (pictured), The Adonis Boy, Adon, and Sabu. Taking their cue from this genre of lifestyle and erotic articulation, it explores various episodes in this history of men across the early-to-mid postwar period and earlier including: the first stirrings of a homo 
movement in the early 1970s, which in turn sparked expressions of virulent anti-homo sentiment; the impact of American ideologies and idealisations on the conception of Japanese manly beauty from the 1950s to the 1970s; manly ethics and a geneology of masculine expression; and finally the very modern love of elder and youth. www.routledge.com/9780415421867
movement in the early 1970s, which in turn sparked expressions of virulent anti-homo sentiment; the impact of American ideologies and idealisations on the conception of Japanese manly beauty from the 1950s to the 1970s; manly ethics and a geneology of masculine expression; and finally the very modern love of elder and youth. www.routledge.com/9780415421867 
