Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 213236-161436-1281
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315695921
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138905306
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Modern Languages
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (224 pages) constitutes a ground-breaking approach to change in contemporary Japanese society through detailed interdisciplinary focus on the reported incidence of eating disorders and self-harm in Japan from the 1980s onwards. The work’s range of analytic focus is extensive, including numerous case studies from contemporary Japanese popular culture (novels, short stories, manga, anime, television soaps), which trace potential links between their projections of normative femininity and ‘self-directed harm’ on the part of Japanese women. The approach it advocates can be applied to the public construction and manipulation of a range of role performance through Japanese popular culture.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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