Straight from the Heart : : Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga / / Jennifer S. Prough.

Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls' comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls' culture throughout the postwar e...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. The Heart of the Matter: Gender, Intimacy, and Consumption in the Production of Shōjo Manga
  • Chapter Two. Descent and Alliance in the Shōjo Manga Family Tree: A Postwar History
  • Chapter Three. Raising Readers, Rearing Artists: Fabricating Community in Shōjo Manga Magazines
  • Chapter Four. Affective Labor: Gender, Generation, and Consumption in the Production of Shōjo Manga
  • Chapter Five. Material Gals: Girls' Sexuality, Girls' Culture, and Shōjo Manga
  • Epilogue. Shōjo Manga at Large
  • Appendix A. Magazine List
  • Appendix B. Manga Division Organizational Chart
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author