Bad Girls of Japan

by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley

Book Overview

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan 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. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403969477
• ISBN13: 9781403969477
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"