ASIA 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Economic Miracle, Transsexual, Wish Fulfillment
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Against doctor who did transexaul operation of transexual women. Sex workers were no good back then. Thus became hard to have an operation in japan for the next 30 years. Father is a leftist critic and a poet. Comic strips about the lives of young women. Popular among young women in the post-modern society. Close link to the late capitalist society and consumer culture. Search for individual identity and meaning of life. Heroine are usually not married and in-btwn main stages of their lives. Embody traditional role of women within household. Unlike typical unmarried female protagonists in modern japanese lit. Changing situation of women in contemporary japan, beyond the ordinary japanese woman"s situation. People, place of residence are all changing. Can exercise her agency and she has a control over it. Met erika for the first time in the kitchen. Mikage prefers to sleep in the kitchen. Sex does not have to correspond gender.
