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Summary
Provides the first comprehensive overview of the cultural significance of the reading practices of the girl, or shôjo , in modern and contemporary Japan and thereby invites a re-assessment of core propositions about gender norms in Japanese society.
Author Biography
Tomoko Aoyama is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at The University of Queensland, Australia. Barbara Hartley is a Lecturer in the School of Asian Languages and Studies at The University of Tasmania, Australia.
Table of Contents
| List of figures | p. xiii |
| List of contributors | p. xiv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Great March Forward of All Girls Who Support the Eternal Girl | p. 15 |
| Poem | |
| Translated | |
| Genealogy of the reading girl | p. 17 |
| The genealogy of hirahira: liminality and the girl | p. 19 |
| The genealogy of the "girl" critic reading girl | p. 38 |
| The climate of the girl in Yoshimoto Banana: ???!?!? | p. 50 |
| Reading against social constraint | p. 65 |
| Volatility and diversity: Shiraki Shizu and the reading girl | p. 67 |
| Ribbons undone: the sh?jo story debates in prewar Japan | p. 80 |
| Japanese girls' comfort reading of Anne of Green Gables | p. 92 |
| The erotic reading girl | p. 105 |
| Matsuura Rieko's The Reverse Version: the theme of "girl-addressing-girl" and male homosexual fantasies | p. 107 |
| Murakami Haruki's sh?jo: Kasahara Mei | p. 119 |
| A girl with her writing machine | p. 130 |
| Reading the performing and visual girl | p. 143 |
| Transcending gender in pictorial representations of Miyazawa Kenji's "Marivuron and the girl" | p. 145 |
| From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: translation and the transfiguration of gender and sexuality in sh?jo manga | p. 160 |
| Girls reading Harry Potter, girls writing desire: amateur manga and shdjo reading practices | p. 174 |
| Reading Lolita in Japan | p. 187 |
| Bibliography | p. 202 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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