Passionate Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passionate Friendship write by Deborah M. Shamoon. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Passionate Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Friendship answers these questions by reviewing Japanese girls’ print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls’ literary magazines to the 1970s “revolution” shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girls’ literature and illustration across the twentieth century, both pre- and postwar, and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls, even as they were informed by competing political and social ideologies. The author traces the development of girls’ culture in pre–World War II magazines and links it to postwar teenage girls’ comics and popular culture. Within this culture, as private and cloistered as the schools most readers attended, a discourse of girlhood arose that avoided heterosexual romance in favor of “S relationships,” passionate friendships between girls. This preference for homogeneity is echoed in the postwar genre of boys’ love manga written for girls. Both prewar S relationships and postwar boys’ love stories gave girls a protected space to develop and explore their identities and sexuality apart from the pressures of a patriarchal society. Shojo manga offered to a reading community of girls a place to share the difficulties of adolescence as well as an alternative to the image of girls purveyed by the media to boys and men. Passionate Friendship’s close literary and visual analysis of modern Japanese girls’ culture will appeal to a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of Japanese studies, gender studies, and popular culture.
Love is where it Falls
Love is where it Falls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love is where it Falls write by Simon Callow. This book was released on 1999. Love is where it Falls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This extraordinary memoir brilliantly evokes one of the most formidable and influential figures in recent British cultural history, Peggy Ramsay?Those of us who loved her will be astonished by the vivid accuracy of Simon Callow's portrait; but even those ignorant of her existence will surely be touched, fascinated and challenged."-Christopher Hampton, The Sunday Times
Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love
Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love write by Liz Carmichael. This book was released on 2004-10-01. Friendship: Interpreting Christian Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The love of friendship has, at the least, established its place as a necessary model of love in Christian tradition. This study shows the deep roots it has in Christian thought, among both ancient and modern writers, and is intended to facilitate further reflection on and exploration of its creative potential now and for the future.
Passionate Communities
Passionate Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passionate Communities write by Marilyn R. Schuster. This book was released on 1999-06. Passionate Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream culture and of political and sexual subcultures. From her earliest novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), Rule's fiction has provided a challenge to the concept of a fixed identity and to the identity politics founded on such a concept. Incorporating all of Jane Rule's early work-including unpublished manuscripts, letters, magazine and newspaper columns, as well as fan mail she received-Schuster also draws on interviews, conversations, and personal encounters with the author to elicit the ways in which Rule interrogates the meanings and politics of sexuality, the relationship between sexuality and language, and the stakes of communities in individual claims on identity. Passionate Communities is a thorough, engaging, and long-overdue study of an important voice in lesbian literature and gay and lesbian politics.
Anthology of Friendship
Anthology of Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthology of Friendship write by Edward Carpenter. This book was released on 1915. Anthology of Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
