xii, 291 [8] p. of plates.;: ills (some col.) ; 24 x 20 cm
Contents
1. Introduction / Joshua S. Mostow -- 2. Gender in Japanese Art / Chino Kaori -- 3. The Image of Women in Battle Scenes: "Sexually" Imprinted Bodies / Ikeda Shinobu -- 4. The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire / Joshua S. Mostow -- 5. Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama, and Art / David Pollack -- 6. Westernizing Bodies: Women, Art, and Power in Meiji Yoga / Norman Bryson -- 7. Icons of Femininity: Japanese National Painting and the Paradox of Modernity / Doris Croissant -- 8. Images of Women in National Art Exhibitions during the Korean Colonial Period / Kim Hyeshin -- 9. The Otherness of Women in the Avant-Garde Film Woman in the Dunes / Chigusa Kimura-Steven -- 10. Gender in Contemporary Japanese Art / Gunhild Borggreen -- 11. Busty Battlin' Babes: The Evolution of the Shojo in 1990s Visual Culture / Sharalyn Orbaugh