Permitted And Prohibited Desires

Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan

Anne Allison (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-29809-8 (ISBN)

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This book provides a thoughtful analysis of the varied culture of sex and sexuality, power relations, and gender dynamics in contemporary Japan.

Erect-nippled, cartoonish breasts floating, like clouds, across a children’s television program; sexually explicit scenes of rape and brutality mainstreamed in mass-marketed, highly accessible comic books for both children and adults; food in children’s lunch boxes meticulously sculpted to look like Zen monks (hard-boiled egg) or octopuses (wieners

Anne Allison teaches anthropology at Duke University and now lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Introduction -- Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies -- A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? -- Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga -- Japanese Mothers and obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus -- Producing Mothers -- Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture -- Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 233 mm
Gewicht	620 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-29809-0 / 0367298090
ISBN-13	978-0-367-29809-8 / 9780367298098
Zustand	Neuware