Queer Affective Literacies: Examining "Rotten" Women's Literacies in Japan

• Main Author: Santos, Kristine Michelle
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: cultural studies; new literacies; queer studies; gender studies; fan cultures; East Asian Languages and Societies; Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Japanese Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/53; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2020.1825506
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In Japan, there is a group of women who are notoriously known as “rotten women” because of their fantasies that perceive male homosocial relationships as homoromantic or homosexual. These transformative homoerotic fantasies are central to Boys Love culture. These “rotten women” or fujoshi engage wit...