List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology,
Feminism, and Cultural Studies
Story 1
Story 2
Divides Between Theory and Ethnography
Divides Between Gender and Sexuality
Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides
Toward the Bridging of Divides: Playing with the Phallus
2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or,
Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual?
Sights/Sites of Gender and Sex: Western Theories
of the Male Gaze
Machiko-sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children's
Cartoons
3 Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga
Manga: Comics of (not only) Play
Ero Manga: Texts
Cutting the Other, Cutting Off the Self
Conclusion
4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos:
The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus
Cultural Ritual and State Ideology
Japanese Food as Cultural Myth
School, State, and Subjectivity
Nursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the Obento
Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus
5 Producing Mothers
Kyoiku Mama: The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education
The Discipline of Summer Vacation
Productive Mergences: Mother's Love and School's Discipline
Women's Experiences in Their Roles as Education Mothers
Conclusion
6 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest
in Japanese Popular Culture
Evils of incest
Incestuous Pleasures
Incest, Taboos, and Two Myths: Oedipus and Ajase
Conclusion: Timing and Nationalism
7 Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance:
Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan
Travel and Borders
What Is Dirty, and What Is Clean?
Modernizing the Public, Fetishizing the Pubic
Covering Territories: State and Border Control
Lacking Parts
Postscript
Notes
References
About the Book and Author
Index
Anne Allison is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994).
"An important work. . . . "Permitted and Prohibited Desires is a valuable contribution to anthropology and cultural studies, providing at once an accessible introduction to some of the most influential recent Western theoretical trends, and an experimental foray into the applicability of this theory in a non-Western cultural setting."--Karen Kelsky, "Journal of the History of Sexuality
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