Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
Marielle Nitoslawska
Director
Mari Tanaka
Meiko Kaji
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Rumi Koyama
Nana Katase
Yoko Ono
Yayoi Kusama
Rin Takanashi
Laura Miller
Anthropologist
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A Plastic Ocean75%
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish67%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
McQueen74%
Directed by John Ford70%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Above Majestic73%
Fuck64%
Girl Model65%
Maternal Instinct71%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Looking for Richard68%
My Mom Jayne79%
Miss Representation69%
35 Up76%
Sidney70%
The Captains63%
Sherman's March67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
