Gitte Marianne Hansen: 1 book

Book cover of Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture

by Gitte Marianne Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. This...
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