Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in JapanThis 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. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan. |
Contents
Different Differences Place and Sex in Anthropology Feminism and Cultural Studies | 1 |
Story 2 | 3 |
Divides Between Theory and Ethnography | 5 |
Divides Between Gender and Sexuality | 9 |
Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides | 15 |
Playing with the Phallus | 19 |
A Male Gaze in Japanese Childrens Cartoons or Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? | 29 |
Western Theories of the Male Gaze | 34 |
The Discipline of Summer Vacation | 109 |
Mothers Love and Schools Discipline | 112 |
Womens Experiences in Their Roles as Education Mothers | 116 |
Conclusion | 122 |
Transgressions of the Everyday Stories of MotherSon Incest in Japanese Popular Culture | 123 |
Evils of Incest | 127 |
Incestuous Pleasures | 131 |
Oedipus and Ajase | 134 |
Machikosensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Childrens Cartoons | 40 |
Cartooning Erotics Japanese Ero Manga | 51 |
Comics of not only Play | 56 |
Texts | 60 |
Cutting the Other Cutting Off the Self | 68 |
Conclusion | 78 |
Japanese Mothers and Obentos The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus | 81 |
Cultural Ritual and State Ideology | 82 |
Japanese Food as Cultural Myth | 83 |
School State and Subjectivity | 87 |
Nursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the Obento | 88 |
Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus | 92 |
Producing Mothers | 105 |
The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education | 106 |
Timing and Nationalism | 143 |
Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan | 147 |
Travel and Borders | 151 |
What Is Dirty and What Is Clean? | 155 |
Modernizing the Public Fetishizing the Pubic | 160 |
State and Border Control | 164 |
Lacking Parts | 168 |
Postscript | 174 |
Notes | 177 |
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About the Book and Author | 215 |
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