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Pushy Women / a film by Caro Macdonald.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Women wrestlers--Japan.
- Women wrestlers.
- Sumo--Japan.
- Sumo.
- Sex role--Japan.
- Sex role.
- Wrestling--Training--Japan.
- Wrestling.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (23 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Manchester, England] : Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Compared to previous generations, the modern Japanese woman has the world at her feet: she can pursue any career, wear whatever she likes, and spend her leisure time however she likes - even playing sumo. This film follows five young wrestlers as they endure the hardships necessary to succeed in the unusual world of female sumo wrestling.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed November 04, 2016).
- OCLC:
- 964551640
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