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Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0520219902 BibTeX citation key: Allison1996 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Althusser. Louis, Japan, Kulturpolitik, Lacan. Jacques, Manga, Pornography, Psychoanalysis, Sexuality Creators: Allison Publisher: Univ. of California Press (Berkeley) |
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This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan. Table of Contents Acknowledgments (xi) Introduction (xiii) 1. Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies (1) 2. A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? (29) 4. Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box As Ideological State Apparatus (81) 5. Producing Mothers (105) 6. 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 Notes References About the Book and Author Index Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |