Anne Allison teaches anthropology at Duke University and now lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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 obentos: 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
This book provides a thoughtful analysis of the varied culture of sex and sexuality, power relations, and gender dynamics in contemporary Japan.
