Permitted and Prohibited Desires

Anne Allison

• 01 juni 1996
• 9780813316987

Samenvatting:

Erect-nippled, cartoonish breasts floating, like clouds, across a children's television program; sexually explicit scenes of rape and brutality mainstreamed in mass-marketed, highly accessible comic books for both children and adults; food in children's lunch boxes meticulously sculpted to look like Zen monks (hard-boiled eggs) or octupuses (wieners); everyday stories of mother-son incest; and, in the face of rampant pornography, the incongruence of obscenity laws prohibiting the visibility of pubic hair in public media - this book provides a thoughtful analysis of the varied culture of sex and sexuality, power relations, and gender dynamics in contemporary Japan.