Abstract
topic of male homosexuality has not been limited to female produced popular culture materials; it can also be found as an expression of female sexuality in mainstream women's literature. Considering the fact that not only Mari Mori, but also a number of other women writers, including Taeko Kōno, Kanoko Okamoto, and Rieko Matsuura pursue the particular theme of male homosexuality as grounded in a fantasmatic diegesis, it becomes apparent that, in the process of exploring the complex area of female gender formations and relations, women's fantasies about male homosexuality can (and should) be positioned as one of the initial discursive points from which female desires originate. This chapter presents the English translation of the original work The Bygone World.Keywords: Kanoko Okamoto; male homosexuality; Bygone World
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