Schoolgirls, money and rebellion in Japan / Sharon Kinsella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kinsella, Sharon, 1969- author.

Series:

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series.

The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Japan.

Girls.

Schoolgirls--Japan.

Schoolgirls.

Clothing and dress--Japan.

Clothing and dress.

Japan--Social life and customs--20th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P>Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become central to urban mythology and the content of culture. The cultic fascination with the figure of a deviant school girl, which has some of its earliest roots in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, lik

Contents:

Introduction: the age of the girl

Gathering and interpreting the statistical evidence

Compensated dating as a Salaryman subculture

Kogyaru chic and dressing up as a delinquent

The surveillance of financial deviancy

Girls as a race

Ganguro, Yamanba, and transracial style

Minstelized girls

Schoolgirl revolt in male cultural imagination

Problems compensating women.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-415-70411-1

0-203-76231-2

1-134-48848-3

1-134-48841-6

9780203762318

OCLC:

863823612