Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. 2. Gender in Japanese Art 17
7. 3. The Image of Women in Battle Scenes: “Sexually” Imprinted Bodies 35
8. 4. The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire 49
9. 5. Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama, and Art 71
10. 6.Westernizing Bodies: Women, Art, and Power in Meiji Yāga 89
11. 7. Icons of Femininity: Japanese National Painting and the Paradox of Modernity 119
12. 8. Images of Women in National Art Exhibitions during the Korean Colonial Period 141
13. 9. The Otherness of Women in the Avant-Garde Film Woman in the Dunes 155
14. 10. Gender in Contemporary Japanese Art 179
15. 11. Busty Battlin’ Babes: The Evolution of the Shōjo in 1990s Visual Culture 201
16. Notes 229
17. Bibliography 267
18. Contributors 283
19. Index 285