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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959904403321

Titolo

Bad Girls of Japan / / by L. Miller, J. Bardsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palgrave Macmillan

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2005

ISBN

9786611367909

9781281367907

1281367907

9781403977120

1403977127

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 222 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerLaura <1953->

BardsleyJan

Disciplina

305.42/0952/09045

Soggetti

Ethnology

Chemistry, Organic

Sex

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Anthropology

Sociocultural Anthropology

Organic Chemistry

Gender Studies

Asian Culture

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.