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      Permitted and Prohibited Desires
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      Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

      Permitted and Prohibited Desires

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      Permitted and Prohibited Desires book

      Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
      ByAnne Allison
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 1996
      eBook Published 27 September 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301384
      Pages 240
      eBook ISBN 9780429301384
      Subjects Area Studies
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      Allison, A. (1996). Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429301384

      ABSTRACT

      Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for running shoes, for example, the figure of a man jogging at dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily exhortationto perform.To say this differently, there is something both real and phantasmic about desire.Yet this notion seems contradictory. Isn't there a difference between the desireto be fit, for example, which is realizable, realistic, and, in these senses, realand the desire to escape routine everydayness, which, for most of us, is inescapablemost of the time? But is exercise real or phantasmic? Certainly noteveryone works out, and even those who make exercise a part of their reality maydo so in order to pursue a fantasy about themselves. And are escapes from dailyroutines phantasmic or real? An escape from the everyday is far more realizablefor some people than even fitness. But here too what is fantasy blends into (andbecomes indistinguishable from) the real: A vacation away from work may be ameans of ensuring a higher level of work performance when one returns.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|27 pages

      Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology, Feminism, and Cultural Studies

      chapter 2|21 pages

      A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual?

      chapter 3|29 pages

      Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga

      chapter 4|23 pages

      Japanese Mothers and obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Producing Mothers

      chapter 6|23 pages

      Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture

      chapter 7|29 pages

      Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan

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