03281nam 2200709 a 450 991078986800332120230725030816.01-4529-4610-80-8166-7657-7(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 criticismComic 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 Tamaki1961-1477133Vincent Keith1968-1477134Lawson Dawn1477135Azuma Hiroki1971-1475353MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789868003321Beautiful fighting girl3692131UNINA