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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825764303321

Titolo

Bad girls of Japan / / edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houndmills, Balsingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36790-7

9786611367909

1-4039-7712-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 222 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerLaura <1953->

BardsleyJan

Disciplina

305.42/0952/09045

Soggetti

Women - Japan - Social conditions

Sex role - Japan

Feminism - Japan

Women - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Mythical Bad Girls: The Corpse, the Crone, and the Snake -- 2 Bad Girls Confined: Okuni, Geisha, and the Negotiation of Female Performance Space -- 3 Bad Girls from Good Families: The Degenerate Meiji Schoolgirl -- 4 Not That Innocent: Yoshiya Nobuko's Good Girls -- 5 So Bad She's Good: The Masochist's Heroine in Postwar Japan, Abe Sada -- 6 Bad Girls Like to Watch: Writing and Reading Ladies' Comics -- 7 Branded: Bad Girls Go Shopping -- 8 Bad Girl Photography -- 9 Black Faces, Witches, and Racism against Girls -- 10 Filipina Modern: "Bad" Filipino Women in Japan -- 11 Sex with Nation: The OK (Bad) Girls Cabaret -- Afterword: AND some NOT SO BAD -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? The authors in this volume propose shifts in our perceptions of bad girls by providing new ways to understand them through the case of Japan. By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of



specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. Bad Girls of Japan explores deviancy in richly diverse media: mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.