ABSTRACT

This article explores the mediation of androgynous bodies and styles in contemporary Japan by mapping the relationship between dansō (female-to-male crossdressing) and genderless (jendāresu). Dansō refers to gender-crossing practices usually by individuals who are assigned female at birth, whereas genderless is a mode of fashion emerging in 2010 which theoretically denotes styles that do not distinguish between genders. Drawing on media coverage of dansō individuals and genderless joshi (girls) in the 2010s, supplemented by ethnographic research conducted in a Tokyo dansō cafe-and-bar, I argue that these individuals embraced genderbending practices before being named as “doing” dansō or genderless. Through their distinct but related androgynous practices, they construct alternative identities and ways of being and retrospectively become interpellated as “dansō” and “genderless.” Further, I suggest that dansō and genderless not only allow us to rethink the gender binary, particularly in queer studies and transgender studies in a transnational context, but also the connections between style and gender and sexual subjectivities. Placing dansō and genderless on a spectrum instead of considering the two as separate phenomena opens up new conversations about androgynous bodies at the intersections of queer studies, fashion studies, and cultural studies in Asia.

摘要

本文通过绘制dansō（女性对男性的变装）和无性别 ( jendāresu )之间的关系，探讨了当代日本雌雄同体的身体和风格的中介作用。Dansō是指通常由出生时被指定为女性的个人进行的跨性别实践，而无性别是 2010 年出现的一种时尚模式，理论上表示不区分性别的风格。借鉴2010 年代对dansō个体和无性别joshi（女孩）的媒体报道，并辅以在东京dansō咖啡馆和酒吧进行的民族志研究，我认为这些人在被命名为“做”之前接受了性别弯曲的做法dansō或无性别。通过他们独特但相关的雌雄同体的做法，他们构建了另类的身份和存在方式，并且回顾性地被质疑为“ dansō ”和“无性别”。此外，我建议dansō和无性别不仅让我们重新思考性别二元论，特别是在跨国背景下的酷儿研究和跨性别研究中，而且还允许我们重新思考风格与性别和性主体之间的联系。将dansō和无性别放在一个光谱上，而不是将两者视为单独的现象，从而在亚洲酷儿研究、时尚研究和文化研究的交叉点开启了关于雌雄同体的新对话。