Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture

by Gitte Marianne Hansen

Book Overview

From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women's self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture.

This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women's self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture. To theoretically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138905305
• ISBN13: 9781138905306
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"