03313nam 2200721 a 450 991046007220332120200520144314.01-4529-4610-80-8166-7657-7(CKB)2670000000078073(EBL)678666(OCoLC)712015738(SSID)ssj0000467176(PQKBManifestationID)12185086(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467176(PQKBWorkID)10466640(PQKB)10844984(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177699(MiAaPQ)EBC678666(Au-PeEL)EBL678666(CaPaEBR)ebr10461001(EXLCZ)99267000000007807320101122d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeautiful fighting girl[electronic resource] /Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki AzumaMinneapolis [Minn.] University of Minnesota Press20111 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5450-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; A Note on the Translation; Translator's Introduction: Making It Real: Fiction, Desire, and the Queerness of the Beautiful Fighting Girl; BEAUTIFUL FIGHTING GIRL; Afterword to the First Edition (2000); Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006); Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Notes; IndexFrom Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica? of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Sait? Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Sait?, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reComic books, strips, etcJapanHistory and criticismWomen in popular cultureJapanGirls in popular cultureJapanGirls in literatureJapanGirls in artJapanPopular cultureJapanese influencesAnimated filmsJapanHistory and criticismElectronic books.Comic books, strips, etc.History and criticism.Women in popular cultureGirls in popular cultureGirls in literatureGirls in artPopular cultureJapanese influences.Animated filmsHistory and criticism.741.5/3524220952Saitō Tamaki1961-1027157Vincent Keith1968-960740Lawson Dawn1027158Azuma Hiroki1971-873198MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460072203321Beautiful fighting girl2442437UNINA