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This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis of this enduring trope. The book focuses on several iterations of the monstrous-feminine in contemporary Japan: the self-replicating shojo in horror, monstrous mothers in science fiction, female ghosts and suburban hauntings in cinema, female monsters and public violence in survival horror games, and the rebellious female body in mytho-fiction. Situating the titles examined here amid discourses of crisis that have materialized in contemporary Japan, Dumas illuminates the ambivalent pleasure of the monstrous-feminine as a trope that both articulates anxieties centered on shifting configurations of subjectivity and nationhood, and elaborates novel possibilities for identity negotiation and social formation in a period marked by dramatic change.

Women in popular culture --- Femmes dans la culture populaire --- Monsters --- Monstres

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"Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics"--Provided by publisher.

Femmes dans la culture populaire --- Femmes --- Women in popular culture --- Women in popular culture. --- Dans la culture populaire --- Japan. --- Popular culture --- Women --- Public opinion --- J4176.80 --- J4143 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- gender roles, women, feminism -- history --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture

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Dans sa théorie du «stade du miroir», le psychanalyste et psychiatre Jacques Lacan a affirmé que le corps féminin est défini par son manque d'attributs masculins. Dans ce cadre, il a décrit la sexualité féminine principalement comme une absence et a assumé la subordination féminine au regard masculin. Cependant, que se passe-t-il si l'on suit le conseil de Jean Baudrillard "d'avaler le miroir" et de regarder à travers le "miroir" pour explorer les reflets et les réalités rencontrés dans le miroir culturel, qui reflète la culture en question : ses normes, ses idéaux et valeurs? Et si le beau était inversé et devenait laid ; et le laid est considéré comme beau ou la forme-change en quelque chose conventionnellement considéré comme beau ? Ce sont les questions fondamentales que Basia Sliwinska pose dans cette nouvelle et importante enquête sur l'identité de genre et les politiques de vision de l'art féminin contemporain. Au travers d'une discussion innovante sur le miroir en tant que métaphore, Sliwinska révèle comment les pratiques post-1989 des artistes femmes Les deux côtés de l'ancien rideau de fer - tels que Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramovic, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL, Anetta Mona Chisa et Lucia Tkacova - vont au-delà des binaires entre hommes et femmes et embrassent l'altérité et la différence en jouant avec des visages trop féminins. Leurs œuvres provocantes offrent des représentations alternatives du corps féminin à celles du miroir culturel. Leur art défie et déconstruit les représentations patriarcales de «l'autre» social et culturel, associées aux tropes visuelles de la féminité telles qu'Alice au pays des merveilles, Vénus et Méduse. Le corps féminin dans le miroir fait une intervention radicale et radicale dans la théorie de l'art et les études culturelles en proposant de nouveaux concepts théoriques tels que "le miroir" et le "genderland" (inspirés des aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles), en tant qu'outils essentiels avec lesquels analyser et expliquer les récents développements de l'art féminin. In his theory of the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan argued that the female body is defined by its lack of male attributes. Within this framework, he described female sexuality primarily as an absence, and assumed female subordination to the male gaze. However, what happens if one follows Jean Baudrillard's advice to swallow the mirror and go through the looking-glass to explore the reflections and realities that we encounter in the cultural mirror, which reflects the culture in question: its norms, ideals and values? What if the beautiful is inverted and becomes ugly; and the ugly is considered beautiful or shape-shifts into something conventionally thought of as beautiful? These are the fundamental questions that Basia Sliwinska poses in this important new enquiry into gender identity and the politics of vision in contemporary women's art. Through an innovative discussion of the mirror as a metaphor, Sliwinska reveals how the post-1989 practices of woman artists from both sides of the former Iron Curtain - such as Joanna Rajkowska, Marina Abramović, Boryana Rossa, Natalia LL and Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkácová - go beyond gender binaries and instead embrace otherness and difference by playing with visual tropes of femininity. Their provocative works offer alternative representations of the female body to those seen in the cultural mirror. Their art challenges and deconstructs patriarchal representations of the social and cultural 'other', associated with visual tropes of femininity such as Alice in Wonderland, Venus and Medusa. The Female Body in the Looking-Glass makes a refreshing, radical intervention into art theory and cultural studies by offering new theoretical concepts such as the mirror and genderland (inspired by Alice's adventures in Wonderland) as critical tools with which we can analyse and explain recent developments in women's art.

Eastern and Central Europe --- Women in popular culture --- Women in art --- Self-perception in women --- Feminism and the arts --- Human figure in art --- Féminisme --- Corps humain, thème --- Art contemporain --- Femme artiste --- Femme, thème --- Sexualité --- Psychanalyse --- Sociologie de la culture --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Arts and feminism --- Arts --- Women --- Popular culture --- Psychology --- Public opinion --- Self-perception in women. --- Women in popular culture. --- Human figure in art. --- Feminism and the arts. --- Feminism --- Social conditions. --- Artists --- Literature --- Theory --- Female body

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INTRODUCTION: Iconic Mexican Women at the Threshold of a New Century -- CHAPTER I. Forget Me Not: Malinche's Struggles in Twenty-First Century Mexico -- CHAPTER II. Impossible Nun: Sor Juana and the Traps of Representation -- CHAPTER III. Leona Vicario: The Sweet Mother of the Nation -- CHAPTER IV. Si Adelita se fuera con otro¿ Soldaderas of an Unfinished Revolution -- EPILOGUE. Espero alegre la salida: Frida Kahlo and the Never-Ending Torments of a Female Icon.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Literature --- Mexico --- Mexican literature --- Women --- Women in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Archetypes in literature. --- Women in popular culture. --- Popular culture --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Contemporáneos (Group of writers) --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Public opinion --- Archetypes in literature --- Archetype (Psychology) in literature. --- Neoliberalism --- Writers --- Book --- Imaging

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Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.

Women in popular culture --- aesthetics. --- ancient goddesses. --- archival portraits. --- censure. --- debate. --- diva imagery. --- diva lore. --- emulation. --- eroticization. --- famous women. --- fantasy. --- female icon. --- female iconicity. --- historic. --- japan. --- japanese female figures. --- japanese. --- modern singers. --- modern writers. --- morality. --- nationhood. --- patriarchal culture. --- playful reinvention. --- queens. --- sidelines of history. --- strong women.