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4%OFFSaito Tamaki - Beautiful Fighting Girl - 9780816654512 - V9780816654512
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Beautiful Fighting Girl

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Description for Beautiful Fighting Girl Paperback. Translator(s): Vincent, J. Keith. Num Pages: 248 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AKLC1; FXS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society.
In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saito Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saito, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816654512
SKU
V9780816654512
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About Saito Tamaki
Saito Tamaki is a practicing psychiatrist and medical director of the Sofukai Sasaki Hospital in Chiba, Japan. He is the author of more than two dozen books. J. Keith Vincent is assistant professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Boston University.Dawn Lawson is New York University’s East Asian studies librarian. Hiroki Azuma is a leading cultural critic in Japan.

Reviews for Beautiful Fighting Girl
"A foundational book illuminating the phenomenon of cool Japan, Beautiful Fighting Girl explains the global desire for images of little girls that kick ass. Sait ’s uncomfortably deep understanding of the particulars of this Japanese phenomenon allows us to finally begin to answer questions about the far-reaching implications of the now nearly universal fetish, of our atomizing technologies of interactivity, ... Read more

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