Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan by Anne Allison

Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

Anne Allison

251 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoo...

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