Transfiguring women in late twentieth-century Japan : feminists, lesbians, and girls' comics artists and fans
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Transfiguring women in late twentieth-century Japan : feminists, lesbians, and girls' comics artists and fans
University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2024] , , c2024
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Transfiguring women in late 20th century Japan : feminists, lesbians, and girls' comics artists and fans
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-240) and index
Summary:"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 ...
