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Retracing this epistemology of the Japanese closet 8 means establishing the genealogy of the various concepts and attempting to understand how these sources of new knowledge managed to define and establish themselves as an academic field. After importing and appropriating the concepts, Japanese feminists, LGBT activists and scholars further developed these intellectual tools as a means of undertaking reflection in their own language and exploring issues specific to Japan. I will also examine the links between gender studies, lesbian and gay studies and queer studies in North America.
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Research in this area emphasises how gender identities are not so clearly compartmentalised and how it is impossible to define sexualities in the face of heteronormativity, since each has its own contradictions and incoherencies. As for queer studies, this field emerged during the 1990s, precisely as part of an effort to move away from the categories of male/female and LGBT. These categories are grouped under the acronym LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender 7) to refer to non-heterosexual sexualities and practices, which are explored within the field of LGBT studies. This in turn led to the emergence of lesbian and gay studies, which has denaturalised the concepts of masculine and feminine and questioned the links between heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality. Gender studies was institutionalised in the United States in the 1980s, and in the rest of the world, including Japan, in the 1990s. The term “gender studies” refers to a corpus of multidisciplinary works exploring and harnessing the concept of gender ( jendā ジェンダー ), defined as the system that produces a hierarchical binary of the sexes (men/women) and of the values and representations associated with them (masculine/feminine). Before we go any further, these new fields require some further explanation.