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Permitted and Prohibited Desires

By Anne Allison

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520923447
DOI
10.1525/9780520923447
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
62 MB (65377167 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2020
Pages
252\252
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 13:49:41

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.

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