1st Edition

Permitted And Prohibited Desires Mothers, Comics, And Censorship In Japan

By Anne Allison Copyright 1996
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    Erect-nippled, cartoonish breasts floating, like clouds, across a children’s television program; sexually explicit scenes of rape and brutality mainstreamed in mass-marketed, highly accessible comic books for both children and adults; food in children’s lunch boxes meticulously sculpted to look like Zen monks (hard-boiled egg) or octopuses (wieners

    Introduction -- Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies -- A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? -- Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga -- Japanese Mothers and obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus -- Producing Mothers -- Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture -- Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan

    Biography

    Anne Allison teaches anthropology at Duke University and now lives in Durham, North Carolina.