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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798044803321

Autore

Hansen Gitte Marianne

Titolo

Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan : navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture / / Gitte Marianne Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-44439-6

1-315-69592-8

1-317-44438-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series

Disciplina

305.40952

Soggetti

Femininity - Japan

Femininity in literature

Femininity in popular culture - Japan

Japanese literature - Women authors

Body image in women - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: women and mixed messages; Analytical framework: mapping storylines across genre and cultural hierarchy; Female characters: becoming a being; Narrative and visual culture as produced works; Analysis proposal: inviting characters to speak for themselves; PART I Normativity; 2 Defining normativity: femininity with a long leash; Categorising sex, attaching gender: performance, dis-integration and positioning; Consciousness and display of the game

Sweaty ambassadors for the nation: the national football team, Nadeshiko-JapanConclusions: managing hybrid selves; PART II Self-directed violence; 6 Repairing fragmented selves: self-harm and eating disorders; The Japanese context; Appetite control and slimness; Self-reproach and pain tolerance; Historical roots and contemporary incarnations: Onna daigaku and 'Meshi kuwanu onna'; Between the normal and the sick: behavioural grey zones; Theorising practice: being both victimiser and victim; Conclusions: performance strategy and



contemporary lifestyle

7 Consuming the war in the body: developing analytical markersThematising eating disorders and self-harm: from documentary and literature to manga and art; Onset; Feeling dirty; Over-performance; Escape; The alien invader; Conclusions: private struggles as public discourse and entertainment; 8 Exposing embedded storylines: battling appetite, desire and a harmless monster; Purifying a starving self in a self-constructed world: Miyazaki Hayao's Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; Carving a feminist self into conformity: Murakami Haruki's 'Midori-iro no kemono'

Disguised by the fantastic: re-considering Miyazaki's and Murakami's construction of female