New PDF release: Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan:

From the Eighties onwards, the prevalence of consuming problems and self-harm has elevated between eastern girls, who record receiving combined messages approximately how you can be ladies. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has more and more been thematised in various jap narrative and visible culture.

This booklet examines the connection among normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in modern eastern tradition. To theoretically outline the complexities that represent normativity, the ebook develops the concept that of ‘contradictive femininity’ and indicates how in jap tradition, women’s paradoxical roles are thematised via 3 personality development suggestions, widely derived from the doppelgänger motif. It then demonstrates how consuming problems and self-harm are integrated in normative femininity and means that such self-directed violence may be interpreted as coping techniques to beat emotions of fragmentation concerning contradictive femininity. novels, paintings, manga, anime, television dramas and information tales, the ebook analyses either globally popular jap tradition resembling Murakami Haruki’s literary works and Miyazaki Hayao’s animation, in addition to tradition unavailable to non-Japanese readers. the purpose of juxtaposing such varied narrative and visible tradition is to map universal storylines and thematisation concepts approximately normative femininity, self-harm and consuming problems. additionally, it exhibits how women’s deepest struggles with their very own our bodies became public discourse to be had for intake as leisure and way of life products.

Highly interdisciplinary, it is going to be of big curiosity to scholars and students of eastern stories, eastern tradition and society and gender and women's experiences, in addition to to lecturers and shoppers of eastern literature, manga and animation.