Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan by Allison, Anne

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520219908)

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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan by Allison, Anne

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

$29.95
Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan by Allison, Anne

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Anne Allison
ISBN-10: 0520219902
ISBN-13: 9780520219908
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2000
Pages: 251
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.17w x 0.73d
By Anne Allison
By Anne Allison
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Anne Allison is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994).

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