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Contemporary Japanese women's theatre and visual arts : performing girls' aesthetics /

This book explores the concept of 'girls' aesthetics,' where adult Japanese women create art works about 'girls' that resist motherhood. It traces their beginnings in homoerotic novels about schoolgirls around the 1910s and their later expression in early 'Boys' Lo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anan, Nobuko, 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Subjects:
Theater > Japan > History.
Women in the theater > Japan > History.
Aesthetics, Japanese.
Performing arts > Japan > Philosophy.
Women in the theater > Japan > History > 19th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Girls' Aesthetics 1. Girls' Time, Girls' Space 2. Girlie Sexuality: When Flat Girls Become Three-Dimensional 3. Citizen Girls 4.' Little Girls' Go West? Afterword: Girls' Aesthetics as Feminist Practices Notes Bibliography Index.