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This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes--or obentos--that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan. This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes--or obentos--that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality, motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic Japan.

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CONTENTS
List of Figures = ⅸ
Acknowledgments = xi
Introduction = xiii
1 Different Differences : Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies = 1
  Story 1 = 1
  Story 2 = 3
  Divides Between Theory and Ethnography = 5
  Divides Between Gender and Sexuality = 9
  Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides = 15
  Toward the Bridging of Divides : Playing with the Phallus = 19
2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? = 29
  Sights／Sites of Gender and Sex : Western Theories of the Male Gaze = 34
  Machiko-Sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons = 40
3 Cartooning Erotics : Japanese Ero Manga = 51
  Manga : Comics of(not only) Play = 56
  Ero Manga : Texts = 60
  Cutting the Other, Cutting Off the Self = 68
  Conclusion = 78
4 Japanese Mothers and Obent o ? s : The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus = 81
  Cultural Ritual and State Ideology = 82
  Japanese Food as Cultural Myth = 83
  School, State, and Subjectivity = 87
  Nursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the Obent o ? = 88
  Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus = 92
5 Producing Mothers = 105
  Ky o ? iku Mama : The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education = l06
  The Discipline of Summer Vacation = 109
  Productive Mergences : Mother's Love and School's Discipline = l12
  Women's Experiences in Their Roles as Education Mothers = 116
  Conclusion = 122
6 Transgressions of the Everyday : Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture = 123
  Evils of Incest = 127
  Incestuous Pleasures = 131
  Incest, Taboos, and Two Myths : Oedipus and Ajase = 134
  Conclusion : Timing and Nationalism = 143
7 Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance : Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan = 147
  Travel and Borders = 151
  What Is Dirty, and What Is Clean? = 155
  Modernizing the Public, Fetishizing the Pubic = 160
  Covering Territories : State and Border Control = 164
  Lacking Parts = 168
  postscript = 174
Notes = 177
References = 197
About the Book and Author = 215
Index = 217