Poison woman : figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture

Poison woman : figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture / Christine L. Marran.

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...

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Main Author: Marran, Christine L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
1868-1912
Geschichte 1870-2000.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Women in popular culture > Japan.
Villains in popular culture > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
Civilization
Villains in popular culture
Women in popular culture
Women > Social conditions
Japan > Civilization > 1868-1912.
Japan
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Summary: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.
Item Description:"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"--Title page verso
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 220 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-205) and index.
ISBN:9780816654185
0816654182
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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