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. |
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Review: Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsDisturbing book on Japanese society. Good intro on how the socialization of the individual begins at home and how societal ideals are diffused within the family/social structure. Also explains some of the disturbing aspects of the Japanese psyche, if such a thing can be so generalized. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
Avis d'utilisateur - Susan - GoodreadsDisturbing book on Japanese society. Good intro on how the socialization of the individual begins at home and how societal ideals are diffused within the family/social structure. Also explains some of the disturbing aspects of the Japanese psyche, if such a thing can be so generalized. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
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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 |
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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 |
References | 197 |
About the Book and Author | 215 |
Index | 217 |
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan Anne Allison Affichage d'extraits - 1996 |
Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan Anne Allison Affichage d'extraits - 1996 |
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Fréquemment cités
Page 83 - Is it the food itself or the entrance of the young child into school for the first time? Yet, as one look at a typical child's obento — a small box packaged with a five- or six-course miniaturized meal whose pieces and parts are artistically arranged, perfectly cut, and neatly arranged — would immediately reveal, no food is "just" food in Japan. What is not so immediately apparent, however, is why a small child with limited appetite and perhaps scant interest in food is the recipient of a meal...
Page 10 - Sexuality is to feminism what work is to marxism: that which is most one's own, yet most taken away.
Page xvii - The fundamental level of ideology, however, is not of an illusion masking the real state of things but that of an (unconscious) fantasy structuring our social reality itself.
Page 11 - Politics, resolves the duality in the term "sex" itself: what women learn in order to "have sex," in order to "become women" — woman as gender — comes through the experience of, and is a condition for, "having sex" — woman as sexual object for man, the use of women's sexuality by men. Indeed, to the extent sexuality is social, women's sexuality is its use, just as our femaleness is its alterity.
Page xvi - When individuals use money, they know very well that there is nothing magical about it - that money, in its materiality, is simply an expression of social relations. The everyday spontaneous ideology reduces money to a simple sign giving the individual possessing it a right to a certain part of the social product. So, on an everyday level, the individuals know very well that there are relations between people behind the relations between things. The problem is...
Page 35 - Men of state, of business, discussed under paintings like this. When one of them felt he had been outwitted, he looked up for consolation. What he saw reminded him that he was a man.
Page 23 - ... ...the phallus is not a fantasy, if what is understood by that is an imaginary effect. Nor is it an object (part, internal, good, bad, etc....) in so far as this term tends to accentuate the reality involved in a relationship. It is even less the organ, penis or clitoris, which it symbolizes.
Page 90 - I observed, and even mothers with children who would eat anything prepared obentos as elaborate as anyone else's. Such labor is intended for the child but also the mother: it is a sign of a woman's commitment as a mother and her inspiring her child to being similarly committed as a student. The obento is thus a representation of what the mother is and what the child should become. A model for school is added to what is gift and reminder from home.
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| Titre | Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan |
| Auteur | Anne Allison |
| Édition | réimprimée |
| Éditeur | University of California Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0520923448, 9780520923447 |
| Longueur | 251 pages |
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