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Beautiful fighting girl / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson ; commentary by Hiroki Azuma.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saitō, Tamaki, 1961-
- Standardized Title:
- Sentō bishōjo no seishin bunseki. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--Japan--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Women in popular culture--Japan.
- Women in popular culture.
- Girls in popular culture--Japan.
- Girls in popular culture.
- Girls in literature--Japan.
- Girls in literature.
- Girls in art--Japan.
- Girls in art.
- Popular culture--Japanese influences.
- Popular culture.
- Animated films--Japan--History and criticism.
- Animated films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, Sait? Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Sait?, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends re
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; A Note on the Translation; Translator's Introduction: Making It Real: Fiction, Desire, and the Queerness of the Beautiful Fighting Girl; BEAUTIFUL FIGHTING GIRL; Afterword to the First Edition (2000); Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2006); Commentary: The Elder Sister of Otaku: Japan's Database Animals; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4610-8
- 0-8166-7657-7
- OCLC:
- 712015738
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