Permitted and Prohibited Desires Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1 Different Differences: Place and Sex in Anthropology,
Feminism, and Cultural Studies

Story 1
Story 2
Divides Between Theory and Ethnography
Divides Between Gender and Sexuality
Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides
Toward the Bridging of Divides: Playing with the Phallus

2 A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or,
Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual?

Sights/Sites of Gender and Sex: Western Theories
of the Male Gaze
Machiko-sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children's
Cartoons

3 Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga

Manga: Comics of (not only) Play
Ero Manga: Texts
Cutting the Other, Cutting Off the Self
Conclusion

4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos:
The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus

Cultural Ritual and State Ideology
Japanese Food as Cultural Myth
School, State, and Subjectivity
Nursery School and Ideological Appropriation of the Obento
Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus

5 Producing Mothers

Kyoiku Mama: The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education
The Discipline of Summer Vacation
Productive Mergences: Mother's Love and School's Discipline
Women's Experiences in Their Roles as Education Mothers
Conclusion

6 Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest
in Japanese Popular Culture