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
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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.
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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780367298098
Publisert
2021-05-31
Utgiver
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Vekt
344 gr
Høyde
233 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
U, G, 05, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

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