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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813060203321
• Autore: Hansen Gitte Marianne
• 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