1. Introduction: The Age of the Girl 2. Gathering and Interpreting the Statistical Evidence 3. Compensated Dating as a Salaryman Subculture 4. Kogyaru Chic and Dressing Up as a Delinquent 5. The Surveillance of Financial Deviancy 6. Girls as a Race 7. Ganguro, Yamanba, and Transracial Style 8. Minstrelized Girls 9. Schoolgirl Revolt in Male Cultural Imagination 10. Problems Compensating Women
Biography
Sharon Kinsella is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.
"This well-researched and well-written text examines a demographic group that is at the core of Japan's popular culture. Summing Up: Recommended." - Y. Kiuchi, Michigan State University in CHOICE
"While the work incorporates previously published research, the text has solid threads woven throughout the chapters and many recursive arguments that are progressively refined. This is not just a collection of papers and it really shows that much care has been devoted to editing, updating and expanding. This is the work of a scholar at the height of her abilities, who manages to uphold academic accuracy and build a very distinctive critical voice.[…]I would advise anyone already familiar with Kinsella’s work to purchase this book, and for those not familiar with her work, I could not think of a better gateway into her production. This truly constitutes a milestone for future research, and it will be a valuable addition to the reading list of many courses." - Artur Lozano-Méndez, LSE Review of Books
"Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion provides important contextualization and analysis of the wide range of talk about girls, both concerned and celebratory, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, wherein national (male) anxieties were writ on the body of the schoolgirl. Through its sociological analysis of discourse about schoolgirls, this book is sure to be an important resource for future scholarship on youth trouble and girls in the media at the turn of the millennium." - Jennifer Prough, Valparaiso University, Journal of Japanese Studies
