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

by Anne Allison

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520219902

ISBN13:9780520219908

Release Date:January 2000

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:251 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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Censorship Cultural Customs & Traditions Encyclopedias Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting Mythology & Folklore Political Science Politics & Government

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