ISBN:
0816647267
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9780816647262
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0816647275
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9780816647279
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9780816654185
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxv, 220 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Poison Woman : Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture
DDC:
305.43/3643095209034
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
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Villains in popular culture
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Women in popular culture
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Japan ; Civilization ; 1868-1912
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Villains in popular culture ; Japan
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Women ; Japan ; Social conditions
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Women in popular culture ; Japan
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Electronic books
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Japan Civilization 1868-1912
Abstract:
Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during the 1870s. In Poison Woman, Christine L. Marran investigates this powerful icon, its shifting meanings, and its influence on defining womens sexuality and place in Japan
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Anatomy of a Poison Woman; 2. Newspaper Reading as Poison and Cure; 3. Recollection and Remorse; 4. How to Be a Woman and Not Kill in the Attempt; 5. How to Be a Masochist and Not Get Castrated in the Attempt; Epilogue: By Way of Antidote; Notes; Index
Note:
"Portions of chapter 4 were previously published in slightly different form in "So bad she's good : the masochist's heroine in Japan, Abe Sada," in Bad girls of Japan, edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 141-67
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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