TY - JOUR AU - Miller, Tyrus PY - 2020/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities – Christopher REED JF - Mutual Images Journal JA - MI VL - IS - 9 SE - Reviews DO - 10.32926/2020.9.r.tyr.bache UR - https://www.mutualimages-journal.org/index.php/mi/article/view/9-5 SP - 91-94 AB - <p><em>Bachelor Japanists</em> offers readers an engaging and richly narrated look at Western “Japanism” of the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century—scholarly, collectionist, and creative engagements with Japanese culture, religion, art, and aesthetics—which, Christopher Reed argues, Western individuals and coteries used to construct queer “bachelor” identities, both male and female, eschewing marriage and evading the domestic norms of their day. The term bachelor, Reed underscores, is not [...]</p> ER -