Bad Girls of Japan

Miller, L.; Bardsley, J.

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? The authors in this volume propose shifts in our perceptions of bad girls by providing new ways to understand them through the case of Japan. By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. Bad Girls of Japan explores deviancy in richly diverse media: mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-12-12

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781403969477

DOI: 10.1057/9781403977120

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 222