Beautiful Fighting Girl

by Hiroki Azuma, Tamaki Saitō, Saito Tamaki, et al.

From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica of the Valley of the Wind , the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl , Saito Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816654514
• ISBN13: 9780816654512
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"