The 1st Workshop on Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and its Implementation in Game and Gamification in conjunction with COMDEV 2018, Medan Indonesia, 26th January 2019, WOMELA-GG

Research Article

Gender Equality for Sustainable Development: Focus on Interpreting Gender Relation in YAOI Doujinshi Love Heat at Tropical Island

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2282909,
        author={P A Dewi},
        title={Gender Equality for Sustainable Development: Focus on Interpreting Gender Relation in YAOI Doujinshi Love Heat at Tropical Island},
        proceedings={The 1st Workshop on Multimedia Education, Learning, Assessment and its Implementation in Game and Gamification in conjunction with COMDEV 2018, Medan Indonesia, 26th January 2019, WOMELA-GG},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={WOMELA-GG},
        year={2019},
        month={4},
        keywords={gender relation yaoi doujinshi manga},
        doi={10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2282909}
    }
    
  • P A Dewi
    Year: 2019
    Gender Equality for Sustainable Development: Focus on Interpreting Gender Relation in YAOI Doujinshi Love Heat at Tropical Island
    WOMELA-GG
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.26-1-2019.2282909
P A Dewi1,*
  • 1: Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Contact email: putri.dewi@binus.edu

Abstract

The present study examines the negotiation of gender identity in the Japanese YAOI genre by focusing on the YAOI doujinshi (fan-made manga consisting of love stories between two male characters) titled, Love Heat at Tropical Island. More specifically, based on Kitzinger’s concept of heterosexuality and Yomota’s basic manga character codes, this study performs a textual analysis of the comic panels in order to determine how the authors (in this case, the Indonesian fujoshi) depict their vision of gender relation negotiation. The findings show that the negotiation of gender relation in the work is transnational, i.e., the acculturation of Japanese, Indonesian, and Western gender identity