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. It provides an analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan.Tags
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Interesting subject matter, but the underlying theories leave me cold. I'm not a fan of psychological anthropology anyway, and much of this volume is strongly Freudian.
Interesting book on Japanese sexuality.
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Anne Allison is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is coeditor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Japan
- First words
- Desire is both of and beyond the everyday.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And only when the changes that have started to reorganize the matri-centrality of family life proceed even further do I predict that the fixation on nonmaternal young girls will abate and new fantasy conventions take their place.
- Blurbers
- Comaroff, John; Kelsky, Karen
Classifications
- Genres
- Anthropology, Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 306.7 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations
- LCC
- HQ18 .J3 .A43 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 84
- Popularity
- 381,005
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.65)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
