Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Figures IX
4. Acknowledgments XI
5. Introduction XIII
6. 1 Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies 1
7. 2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? 29
8. 3 Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga 51
9. 4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus 81
10. 5 Producing Mothers 105
11. 6 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture 123
12. 7 Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan 147
13. Notes 177
14. References 197
15. About the Book and Author 215
16. Index 217