Essays about: "Japanese femininity"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Japanese femininity.

  1. 1. Mirror, Mirror : Embodying the sexed posthuman body of becoming in Sion Sono’s Antiporno (アンチポルノ, 2016) and Mika Ninagawa’s Helter Skelter (ヘルタースケルター, 2012)

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2021]
    Keywords : internalized gaze of oppression; Sion Sono; Mika Ninagawa; Antiporno; Helter Skelter; Japanese cinema; film analysis; gender; plastic surgery; beauty standards; body commodification; self-objectification; Japan; becoming; cyborg feminism; the charmed circle; masculine domination; j-horror; pinku egia; ego guro nansensu; shojo manga; BDSM;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the embodiment of the sexed body and the struggle of fitting into the narrow frames of what a woman is supposed to behave and look like in Japanese cinema. Using the medium of film, I, therefore, seek to produce knowledge regarding the internalized gaze of the oppressor, and self-objectification, caused by the capitalist heteropatriarchy. READ MORE

  3. 2. Home of the Japanese Heart : Socio-historical Contextualization of Gender Politics, Commodity Animism and Super State-Nationalism of Japanese Modernity through the Indigenous Faith

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Juno Crown; [2018]
    Keywords : Shrine Maidens; Miko; Shinto; Acculturation; Super State-Nationalism; Ethnic Religion; Monoethnicity; Gender Politics; Hegemonic Femininity; Commodity Animism; Uniform Fetishsm; Rupture of Modernity.;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to contextualize gender politics, nationalism, and animism as interconnected cultural patterns reflecting 19th century acculturation and post-WWII national reconstruction of Japan. In particular, state-nationalism, hegemonic femininity, commodity animism, uniform fetishsm, and power structure are analyzed through the symbolisms and discourse of the Japanese indigenous faith: Shinto, female practitioners, and followers. READ MORE

  4. 3. Cultural Influence in Advertising : A Comparative Analysis of IKEA’s Video Advertising in Sweden and Japan

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Annika Reitz; [2018]
    Keywords : Culture; Cross-cultural Research; Advertising; Marketing; Standardization; Adaptation; Hofstede;

    Abstract : International marketing activities have a great impact on the prosperity and competitiveness of multinational companies (Akgün, Keskin, & Ayar, 2014). That is why the design of marketing activities is especially important. Researchers claim for cultural sensitivity. READ MORE

  5. 4. A stunning portrait of diversity? : Gender, race, and nation in Miss Universe Japan 2015

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Genusvetenskap

    Author : Lina Johansson; [2017]
    Keywords : Miss Universe Japan; Ariana Miyamoto; Japanese femininity; Beauty pageants; Japan; Whiteness; Nationalism; Race; Gender;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to study how gender, race, and nation are represented in Miss Universe Japan 2015. I investigate how the top five participants are represented in relation to Japanese ideal femininity and what these representations contribute to. Furthermore, I examine how global ideals have impacted the outcome of the pageant. READ MORE

  6. 5. Disciplining the Japanese Body: Gender, Power and Skin Color in Japan

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Evdokia Angelaka; [2013]
    Keywords : Japan; Whiteness; Power; Gender; Foucault; Beauty norms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis was to explore gender norms, beauty ideals and social practices and the way these become ‘visible’ on the Japanese female body as (re)producing the ideal Japanese femininity and skin color in particular. In order to achieve that, I investigate and identify these norms, the mechanisms that implement them on the body and the attitudes and expression of resistance against them. READ MORE