Permitted And Prohibited Desires
Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-367-29809-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 148 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-29809-8 (9780367298098)
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Person
Anne Allison teaches anthropology at Duke University and now lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Content
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 obentos: 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