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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-01-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:251
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520219908

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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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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology,Feminism, and Cultural StudiesStory 1Story 2Divides Between Theory and EthnographyDivides Between Gender and SexualityDisciplinary and Theoretical DividesToward the Bridging of Divides: Playing with the Phallus2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or,Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual?Sights/Sites of Gender and Sex: Western Theoriesof the Male GazeMachiko-sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children'sCartoons3 Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero MangaManga: Comics of (not only) PlayEro Manga: TextsCutting the Other, Cutting Off the SelfConclusion4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos:The Lunch Box as Ideological State ApparatusCultural Ritual and State IdeologyJapanese Food as Cultural MythSchool, State, and SubjectivityNursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the ObentoMothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus5 Producing MothersKyoiku Mama: The Everyday Instiller of Everyday EducationThe Discipline of Summer VacationProductive Mergences: Mother's Love and School's DisciplineWomen's Experiences in Their Roles as Education MothersConclusion6 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incestin Japanese Popular CultureEvils of incestIncestuous PleasuresIncest, Taboos, and Two Myths: Oedipus and AjaseConclusion: Timing and Nationalism7 Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance:Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in JapanTravel and BordersWhat Is Dirty, and What Is Clean?Modernizing the Public, Fetishizing the PubicCovering Territories: State and Border ControlLacking PartsPostscriptNotesReferencesAbout the Book and AuthorIndex