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Title: Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Condition: New
Subtitle: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Author: Anne Allison
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520219902
EAN: 9780520219908
ISBN: 9780520219908
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences
Release Date: 01/14/2000
Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes--or obentos--that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 18mm
Item Weight: 408g
Release Year: 2000

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