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...