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UNINA9910790782303321 |
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Autore |
Kinsella Sharon <1969-, > |
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Titolo |
Schoolgirls, money and rebellion in Japan / / Sharon Kinsella |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-415-70411-1 |
0-203-76231-2 |
1-134-48848-3 |
1-134-48841-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Girls - Japan |
Schoolgirls - Japan |
Clothing and dress - Japan |
Japan Social life and customs 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: the age of the girl -- Gathering and interpreting the statistical evidence -- Compensated dating as a Salaryman subculture -- Kogyaru chic and dressing up as a delinquent -- The surveillance of financial deviancy -- Girls as a race -- Ganguro, Yamanba, and transracial style -- Minstelized girls -- Schoolgirl revolt in male cultural imagination -- Problems compensating women. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<P>Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become central to urban mythology and the content of culture. The cultic fascination with the figure of a deviant school girl, which has some of its earliest roots in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, lik |
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