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Under the Ruffles: Shōjo and the Morphology of Power

Frenchy Lunning
pp. 3-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0021
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Girliness Next to Godliness: Lolita Fandom as Sacred Criminality in the Novels of Takemoto Novala

Brian Bergstrom
pp. 21-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0009
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Beyond Domesticating Animal Love

Christine L. Marran
pp. 39-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0013
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Exploited and Mobilized: Poverty and Work in Contemporary Manga

Matthew Penney
pp. 52-66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0017
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Tezuka Is Dead: Manga in Transformation and Its Dysfunctional Discourse

Itō Gō, Miri Nakamura
pp. 69-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0019
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How Characters Stand Out

Miyamoto Hirohito, Thomas Lamarre
pp. 84-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0023
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Manga Translation and Interculture

Cathy Sell
pp. 93-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0002
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Speciesism, Part III: Neoteny and the Politics of Life

Thomas Lamarre
pp. 110-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0005
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Out of the Closet: The Fancy Phenomenon

Rio Saitō, Frenchy Lunning
pp. 139-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0011
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Anatomy of Permutational Desire, Part II: Bellmer's Dolls and Oshii's Gynoids

Livia Monnet
pp. 153-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0015
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Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women's Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary Japan

Kumiko Saito
pp. 171-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0000
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The Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

Emily Raine
pp. 193-209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0003
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Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shōjo Manga

James Welker
pp. 211-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0007
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Transformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992

Miyadai Shinji, Shion Kono, Thomas Lamarre
pp. 231-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0012
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The Logic of Digital Gaming

Aden Evens
pp. 260-269
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0016
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Tsuge Yoshiharu and Postwar Japan: Travel, Memory, and Nostalgia

Yoshikuni Igarashi
pp. 271-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0020
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Implicational Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and the Queer Joke

Yuka Kanno
pp. 287-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0004
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War for Entertainment: The Sky Crawlers

Andrea Horbinski
pp. 304-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0008
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Volition in the Face of Absurdity

Brian Ruh
pp. 306-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0022
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The Past Presents the Future: Toward the Terra

Paul Jackson
pp. 309-312
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0001
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Wherein the Author Documents Her Experience as a Porcelain Doll

Lisa Blauersouth
pp. 312-316
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0006
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Introduction

Thomas Lamarre
pp. ix-xvi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0018
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Contributors

pp. 317-318
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mec.2011.0010
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