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Beautiful Fighting GirlFrom Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society. In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saito Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of young women in Japanese society.In Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saito Tamaki offers a far more sophisticated and convincing interpretation of this alluring and capable figure. For Saito, the beautiful fighting girl is a complex sexual fantasy that paradoxically lends reality to the fictional spaces she inhabits. As an object of desire for male otaku (obsessive fans of anime and manga), she saturates these worlds with meaning even as her fictional status demands her ceaseless proliferation and reproduction. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saito understands the otaku's ability to eroticize and even fall in love with the beautiful fighting girl not as a sign of immaturity or maladaptation but as a result of a heightened sensitivity to the multiple layers of mediation and fictional context that constitute life in our hypermediated world--a logical outcome of the media they consume.
Featuring extensive interviews with Japanese and American otaku, a comprehensive genealogy of the beautiful fighting girl, and an analysis of the American outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque imagination Saito sees as an important antecedent of otaku culture, Beautiful Fighting Girl was hugely influential when first published in Japan, and it remains a key text in the study of manga, anime, and otaku culture. Now available in English for the first time, this book will spark new debates about the role played by desire in the production and consumption of popular culture.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 03/25/2011
ISBN: 9780816654512
Pages: 213
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.58w x 0.59d
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 189
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This is a beautiful ring. I would suggest ordering one six up from your normal ring size because it is a wide band. I had bought the bracelet a year ago and wore it everyday never took it off and the links slowly started breaking and separating to the point I just traded it in for the Wright of the gold. I hope it does not happen with this ring. I think it’s made with hollow gold and it is soft. It is a very light but comfortable band. I don’t always like to wear my diamond ring because I don’t want to loose any stones. This is good for casual everyday wear.
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Poorly designed.
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It's a great idea, just poorly executed. Looks like plastic or a machine-stamped design in person. Disappointing.
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Sheer junk not 18 karat , some kind of scrapping metal no weight to it at all it’s a piece of junk
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ring is as good as pictured. gorgeous!
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This ring is beautiful and sized perfect. However, on the second day, one end of the little curly-cues came loose and is sticking out. I need to sent this back to be repaired.
I hope this will not prove to be too difficult!
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These are great. They are made well, look nice and are easy to move when I’m dusting.
I use these to keep perfumes, lotions and vitamins organized atop my dresser. The velvety compartments are a well sized and the layout is conducive to storing the kind of objects women or men typically store atop a dresser. I find these bins quite functional.
I feel like these were a good value. They weren’t the cheapest and they weren’t the most expensive. They look nice and feel high quality enough.
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