Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367298098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Anne Allison

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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