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Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan (Paperback, New)
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Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan (Paperback, New)
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of
complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics
have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully.
While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure
and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent
mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become
central to urban mythology and the content of culture. The cultic
fascination with the figure of a deviant school girl, which has
some of its earliest roots in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, likewise re-emerged and proliferated in fascinating and
timely ways in the 1990s and 2000s. Through exploring the history
and politics underlying the cult of girls in contemporary Japanese
media and culture, this book presents a striking picture of
contemporary Japanese society from the 1990s to the start of the
2010s. At its core is an in-depth case study of the media delight
and panic surrounding delinquent prostitute schoolgirls. Sharon
Kinsella traces this social panic back to male anxieties relating
to gender equality and female emancipation in Japan. In each
chapter in turn, the book reveals the conflicted, nostalgic,
pornographic, and at times distinctly racialized manner, in which
largely male sentiments about this transformation of gender
relations have been expressed. The book simultaneously explores the
stylistic and flamboyant manner in which young women have reacted
to the weight of an obsessive and accusatory male media gaze.
Covering the often controversial subjects of compensated dating
(enjo kosai), the role of porn and lifestyle magazines, the
historical sources and politicized social meanings of the
schoolgirl, and the racialization of fashionable girls,
Schoolgirls, Money, Rebellion in Japan will be invaluable to
students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, sociology,
anthropology, gender and women's studies.
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