Bad Girls of Japan

233 Pages·2005·1.913 MB·English

by  Laura Miller, Jan Bardsley (eds.)

Bad Girls of Japan
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Bad Girls of Japan
Edited by
Laura Miller
and
Jan Bardsley
BADGIRLSOFJAPAN
© Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley,2005.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-6946-0
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Bad girls of Japan / edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley.
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DOI 10.1057/9781403977120
1.Women—Japan—Social conditions.2.Sex role—Japan.3.Feminism—
Japan.4.Women—Psychology.I.Miller,Laura.II.Bardsley,Jan.
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Contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley
1. Mythical Bad Girls:The Corpse,the Crone,and the Snake 15
Rebecca Copeland
2. Bad Girls Confined:Okuni,Geisha,and the Negotiation
ofFemale Performance Space 33
Kelly Foreman
3. Bad Girls from Good Families:The Degenerate
Meiji Schoolgirl 49
Melanie Czarnecki
4. Not That Innocent:Yoshiya Nobuko’s Good Girls 65
Sarah Frederick
5. So Bad She’s Good:The Masochist’s Heroine in
Postwar Japan,Abe Sada 81
Christine Marran
6. Bad Girls Like to Watch:Writing and Reading Ladies’Comics 97
Gretchen I.Jones
7. Branded:Bad Girls Go Shopping 111
Jan Bardsley and Hiroko Hirakawa
8. Bad Girl Photography 127
Laura Miller
9. Black Faces,Witches,and Racism against Girls 143
Sharon Kinsella
10. Filipina Modern:“Bad”Filipino Women in Japan 159
Nobue Suzuki
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11. Sex with Nation:The OK (Bad) Girls Cabaret 175
Katherine Mezur
Afterword:AND some NOT SO BAD 191
Miriam Silverberg
Bibliography 197
Contributors 211
Index 213
Illustrations
Cover illustration Hisashi Tenmyouya’s work “Chiba Lo-Rider Girls”
from his “Notorious Street Group”series
“Onibaba”by Meiko Ando 14
TheiemotoImafuji ChkjlrkIV teaching nagauta shamisento geisha
(geiko) and maikoin Kyoto 32
“An illustration ofHibiya Park,”by Yamamoto Shkkoku 48
Dust cover image by Nakahara Jun’ichi 64
The file photo ofAbe Sada taken when she was 31 years old 80
Watanabe Yayoi,final page of“Bachelor Party” 96
Book cover,Shopping Queenby Nakamura Usagi 110
Girls’yabapuri 126
Girl in a crowd 142
A Filipina–Japanese couple,christening their son,surrounded by
their friends and an “American”priest 158