Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? The authors in this volume propose shifts in our perceptions of bad girls by providing new ways to understand them through the case of Japan. By tracing the concept of the bad girl as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. Bad Girls of Japan explores deviancy in richly diverse media: mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
- ISBN13 9781403969477
- Publish Date 12 December 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 March 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2005 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 222
- Language English