Bad Girls of Japan

by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403969477
• ISBN13: 9781403969477
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"