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Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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...
To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Adult Manga
Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society
Series: ConsumAsian Series
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors....
Published June 26th 2000 by Routledge