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

Author:   Anne Allison
Publisher:   University of California Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780520219908


Pages:   251
Publication Date:   14 January 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Anne Allison
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520219908


ISBN 10:   0520219902
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   14 January 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies Story 1 Story 2 Divides Between Theory and Ethnography Divides Between Gender and Sexuality Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides Toward the Bridging of Divides: Playing with the Phallus 2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? Sights/Sites of Gender and Sex: Western Theories of the Male Gaze Machiko-sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons 3 Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga Manga: Comics of (not only) Play Ero Manga: Texts Cutting the Other, Cutting Off the Self Conclusion 4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus Cultural Ritual and State Ideology Japanese Food as Cultural Myth School, State, and Subjectivity Nursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the Obento Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus 5 Producing Mothers Kyoiku Mama: The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education The Discipline of Summer Vacation Productive Mergences: Mother's Love and School's Discipline Women's Experiences in Their Roles as Education Mothers Conclusion 6 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture Evils of incest Incestuous Pleasures Incest, Taboos, and Two Myths: Oedipus and Ajase Conclusion: Timing and Nationalism 7 Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan Travel and Borders What Is Dirty, and What Is Clean? Modernizing the Public, Fetishizing the Pubic Covering Territories: State and Border Control Lacking Parts Postscript Notes References About the Book and Author Index

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"""An important work. . . . ""Permitted and Prohibited Desires is a valuable contribution to anthropology and cultural studies, providing at once an accessible introduction to some of the most influential recent Western theoretical trends, and an experimental foray into the applicability of this theory in a non-Western cultural setting.""--Karen Kelsky, ""Journal of the History of Sexuality"


An important work. . . . Permitted and Prohibited Desires is a valuable contribution to anthropology and cultural studies, providing at once an accessible introduction to some of the most influential recent Western theoretical trends, and an experimental foray into the applicability of this theory in a non-Western cultural setting. --Karen Kelsky, Journal of the History of Sexuality


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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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