| Verfasst von: | Welker, James [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | Transfiguring women in late twentieth-century Japan |
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| Titelzusatz: | feminists, lesbians, and girls' comics artists and fans |
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| Verf.angabe: | James Welker |
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| Verlagsort: | Honolulu |
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| Verlag: | University of Hawai'i Press |
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| Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Umfang: | xii, 249 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Fussnoten: | Enthält bibliographische Angaben und Register ; Zielgruppe: 5PSG, Bezug zu Schwulen |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-8248-7268-7 |
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| | 978-0-8248-7269-4 |
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| Abstract: | "Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms in the 1970s and 1980s. These spheres encompassed activists in the uman ribu (women's liberation) movement, members of the rezubian (lesbian) community, and artists and readers of queer shojo manga (girls' comics). Individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category "women" untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the "West." They did so, however, while remaining firmly fixed on the local. Thus, for many, this ostensibly Western focus was not a turn away from Japan but integral to their understanding of being a woman within Japan. Following broad historical overviews of the uman ribu, rezubian, and queer shojo manga spheres, the book takes a deeper look through the lenses of terminology, translation, and travel to offer a window onto how acts of transfiguration reshaped what it meant to be a woman in Japan. The work draws on a vast archive that encompasses early twentieth-century dictionaries, sexology texts, and literature; postwar women's and men's magazines and pornography; translated feminist and lesbian texts; comics and animation; and newsletters, fanzines, and other heretofore largely unexamined ephemera. The volume's characterization of the era is also greatly enriched by interviews with more than sixty individuals. Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan demonstrates that the transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects beyond newly (re)created texts, practices, images, and ideas within the uman ribu, rezubian, and queer shojo manga communities. The individuals and groups involved were themselves transformed. More broadly, their efforts forged new understandings of "women" in Japan, creating space for a greater number of public roles not bound to being a mother or a wife, as well as a greater diversity of gender and sexual expression that reached far beyond the Japanese border"-- Provided by publisher |
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| URL: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780824872687.pdf |
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| | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303832343837323638377C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (g)Japan / (s)Frau / (s)Feminismus / (s)Frauenbewegung / (s)Geschlechterrolle / (s)Geschlechtsidentität / (s)Lesbe / (s)Transsexualität / (s)Shōjo / (s)Manga |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Welker, James: Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan. - 1st ed.. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2024. - 1 online resource (265 pages) |
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| | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Welker, James: Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource |
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| RVK-Notation: | MS 2870 |
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| | MS 3000 |
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| | MS 3010 |
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| Sach-SW: | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 |
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| | Asian history |
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| | Asiatische Geschichte |
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| | Gay & Lesbian studies |
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| | Gender Studies: Gruppen |
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| | Gender studies, gender groups |
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| | Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte |
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| | HISTORY / Asia / Japan |
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| | HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century |
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| | LGBTQ+ Studien / Themen |
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| | Media studies |
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| | Medienwissenschaften |
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| | SOC065000 |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
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| | Sex und Sexualität, soziale Aspekte |
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| | Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
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| Zeit-SW: | 20. Jahrhundert (ca. 1900 bis ca. 1999) |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1868955494 |
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Transfiguring women in late twentieth-century Japan / Welker, James [VerfasserIn]; 2024
