Publisher: McFarland (Jefferson, NC)
ISBN: 978-0-7864-4195-2
Contents:
Levi, Antonia, Introduction (pp. 1-8)
Part One: Boys’ Love and Global Publishing
- Donovan, Hope. Gift versus capitalist economies: Exchanging anime and manga in the U.S. (pp. 11-22).
- Malone, Paul M. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to export: Capitalizing on German Boys’ Love fandom, culturally, socially and economically (pp. 23-42).
- Abraham, Yamila. Boys’ Love thrives in conservative Indonesia (pp. 44-55).
Part Two: Genre and Readership
- Pagliassotti, Dru. Better than romance? Japanese BL manga and the subgenre of male/male Romantic Fiction (pp. 59-84).
- Isola, Mark John. Yaoi and slash fiction: Women writing, reading, and getting off? (pp. 84-98).
- Stanely, Marni. 101 uses for boys: Communing with the reader in yaoi and slash (pp. 99-109).
- Blair, M. M. “She should just die in a ditch”: Fan reactions to female characters in Boys’ Love manga (pp. 110-125).
- Kee, Tan Bee. Rewriting gender and sexuality in English-language yaoi fanfiction (pp. 126-156).
Part Three: Boys’ Love and Perceptions of the Queer
- Akatsuka, Neal K. Uttering the absurd, revaluing the abject: Femininity and the disavowal of homosexuality in transnational Boys’ Love manga (pp. 159-176).
- McHarry, Mark. Boys in love in Boys’ Love: Discourses West/East and the abject in subject formation (pp. 177-189).
- Vicars, Mark, & Senior, Kim. Queering the quotidian: Yaoi, narrative pleasures and reader response (pp. 190-210).
- Hall, Alexis. Gay or gei? Reading “realness” in Japanese yaoi manga (pp. 211-220).
- Williams, Alan. Raping Apollo: Sexual difference and the yaoi phenomenon (pp. 221-231).
- Meyer, Uli. Hidden in straight sight: Trans*gressing gender and sexuality via BL (pp. 232-256).
Reviews:
- Noppe, Nelle, Transformative Works and Cultures, 6.
- Roush, Suanne, School Library Journal, 56(8), 123.