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Bad Girls of Japan This page intentionally left blank Bad Girls of Japan Edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley BADGIRLSOFJAPAN © Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley,2005. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2005 978-1-4039-6946-0 All rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2005 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 and Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire,England RG21 6XS Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 1–4039–6946–9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bad girls of Japan / edited by Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4039-6947-7 ISBN 978-1-4039-7712-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781403977120 1.Women—Japan—Social conditions.2.Sex role—Japan.3.Feminism— Japan.4.Women—Psychology.I.Miller,Laura.II.Bardsley,Jan. HQ1762.B334 2005 305.42(cid:2)0952(cid:2)09045—dc22 2005045966 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India. First edition:November 2005 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For our colleagues and friends This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley 1. Mythical Bad Girls:The Corpse,the Crone,and the Snake 15 Rebecca Copeland 2. Bad Girls Confined:Okuni,Geisha,and the Negotiation ofFemale Performance Space 33 Kelly Foreman 3. Bad Girls from Good Families:The Degenerate Meiji Schoolgirl 49 Melanie Czarnecki 4. Not That Innocent:Yoshiya Nobuko’s Good Girls 65 Sarah Frederick 5. So Bad She’s Good:The Masochist’s Heroine in Postwar Japan,Abe Sada 81 Christine Marran 6. Bad Girls Like to Watch:Writing and Reading Ladies’Comics 97 Gretchen I.Jones 7. Branded:Bad Girls Go Shopping 111 Jan Bardsley and Hiroko Hirakawa 8. Bad Girl Photography 127 Laura Miller 9. Black Faces,Witches,and Racism against Girls 143 Sharon Kinsella 10. Filipina Modern:“Bad”Filipino Women in Japan 159 Nobue Suzuki viii CONTENTS 11. Sex with Nation:The OK (Bad) Girls Cabaret 175 Katherine Mezur Afterword:AND some NOT SO BAD 191 Miriam Silverberg Bibliography 197 Contributors 211 Index 213 Illustrations Cover illustration Hisashi Tenmyouya’s work “Chiba Lo-Rider Girls” from his “Notorious Street Group”series “Onibaba”by Meiko Ando 14 TheiemotoImafuji ChkjlrkIV teaching nagauta shamisento geisha (geiko) and maikoin Kyoto 32 “An illustration ofHibiya Park,”by Yamamoto Shkkoku 48 Dust cover image by Nakahara Jun’ichi 64 The file photo ofAbe Sada taken when she was 31 years old 80 Watanabe Yayoi,final page of“Bachelor Party” 96 Book cover,Shopping Queenby Nakamura Usagi 110 Girls’yabapuri 126 Girl in a crowd 142 A Filipina–Japanese couple,christening their son,surrounded by their friends and an “American”priest 158
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