Nobuko Anan explores what she calls 'girls' aesthetics'-the resistance to female material bodies-in Contemporary Japanese Women's Theatre and Visual Arts: Performing Girls' Aesthetics. By engaging with a wide range of theatre, dance, and visual arts (including installation arts and girls' manga) by artists and groups such as Yubiwa Hotel, Kisaragi Koharu, Yanagi Miwa, Hagio Moto, Studio Life, Kishida Rio, Ikeda Riyoko, the Takarazuka Revue, and KATHY, the book addresses four aspects of girls' aesthetics: time and space, two-dimensionality, issues of citizenship, and the love-and-hate...