Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan : navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture / / Gitte Marianne Hansen
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| Autore: |
Hansen Gitte Marianne
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| Titolo: |
Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan : navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture / / Gitte Marianne Hansen
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.40952 |
| Soggetto topico: | Femininity - Japan |
| Femininity in literature | |
| Femininity in popular culture - Japan | |
| Japanese literature - Women authors | |
| Body image in women - Japan | |
| 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 | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Femininity, self-harm and eating disorders in Japan |
| ISBN: | 1-317-44439-6 |
| 1-315-69592-8 | |
| 1-317-44438-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813060203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.