Gender and Japanese Popular Culture

[C] = Condry, Ian. The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story . Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353942.

[G] = Graeber, David. Debt: The First 5000 Years . Melville House, 2014. ISBN: 9781612194196.

[J] = Jackson, Stevi, ed. Women’s Studies: Essential Readings . New York University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780814742150.

What is “popular” culture, and how might it differ from traditional culture, high culture, and mass culture?

What are some “gender issues” related to Japanese popular culture?

Overview of the syllabus

[J] Chapter 1: Feminist Social Theory.

[J] Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women’s Lives.

4 · Women and Media + “Rotten Girls” ( fujoshi ) Manga

[J] Chapter 14: Representations of Women in the Media.

5 · “Rotten Girls” ( fujoshi ) Manga (cont.)

Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” Chapter 2 in The Cultural Studies Reader . 3rd ed. Edited by Simon During. Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415374132.

Benkler, Yochai. “Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge.” Chapter 1 in The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780300125771.

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections . Edited by Hannah Arendt. Schocken Books, 1969. ISBN: 9780805202410.

Christakis, Nicholas A., and James H. Fowler. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives . Little Brown and Company, 2008. ISBN: 9780316036146.

Negus, Keith. “Rethinking Creative Production Away From the Cultural Industries.” Chapter 13 in Media and Cultural Theory . Edited by James Curran and David Morley. Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415317054.

Lamarre, Thomas. “Otaku Movement.” In Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present . Edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry Harootunian. Duke University Press Books, 2006. ISBN: 9780822338130.

[G] Chapter 1: On The Experience of Moral Confusion.

[G] Chapter 2: The Myth of Barter.

Piketty, Thomas. “Acknowledgements.” In Capital in the Twenty-First Century . Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Belknap Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780674430006.

Robertson, Jennifer. “Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan.” Body and Society 16, no. 2 (2010): 1–36.

[C] Chapter 2: Characters and Worlds as Creative Platforms.

[C] Chapter 3: Early Directions in Postwar Anime.

[C] Chapter 7: Love Revolution: Otaku Fans in Japan.

Robertson, Jennifer. “Introduction.” In Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan . University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520211513.

[T] Chapter 2: Commodified Romance.

[T] Chapter 3: Entrepreneurial Attraction.

17 · Onnagata · Mishima, Yukio. “Onnagata.” In Death in Midsummer and Other Stories . New Directions, 1966. ISBN: 9780811201179.

Glasspool, Lucy. “From Boys Next Door to Boys’ Love: Gender Performance in Japanese Male Idol Media.” Chapter 5 in Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture . Edited by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ISBN: 9780230298309.

McLelland, Mark J. “Japan’s Queer Cultures.” Chapter 11 in Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society . Edited by Victoria Lyon Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, et al. Routledge, 2013. ISBN: 9780415709149.