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

Story 1 ... 1
Story 2 ... 3
Divides Between Theory and Ethnography ... 5
Divides Between Gender and Sexuality ... 9
Disciplinary and Theoretical Divides ... 15
Toward the Bridging of Divides: Playing with the Phallus ... 19

2.  A Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? ... 29

Sights/Sites of Gender and Sex: Western Theories of the Male Gaze ... 34
Machiko-sensei and the Male Gaze in Japanese Children's Cartoons ... 40

3.  Cartooning Erotics: Japanese Ero Manga ... 51

Manga: Comics of (not only) Play ... 56
Ero Manga: Texts ... 60
Cutting the Other, Cutting Off the Self ... 68
Conclusion ... 78

4.  Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus ... 81

Cultural Ritual and Stae Ideology ... 82
Japanese Food as Cultural Myth ... 83
School, Stae, and Subjectivity ... 87
Nursery School and Ideological Apporpriation of the Obento ... 88
Mothering as Gendered Ideological State Apparatus ... 92

5.  Producing Mothers ... 105

Kyoiku Mama: The Everyday Instiller of Everyday Education ... 106
The Discipline of Summer Vacation ... 109
Productive Mergences: Mother's Love and School's Discipline ... 112
Women's Experiences in Their Roles as Educating Mothers ... 116
Conclusion ... 122

6.  Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture ... 123

Evils of Incest ... 127
Incestuous Pleasures ... 131
Incest, Taboos, and Two Myths: Oedipus and Ajase ... 134
Conclusion: Timing and Nationalism ... 143

7.  Pubic Veilings and Public Surveillance: Obscenity Laws and Obscene Fantasies in Japan ... 147

Travel and Borders ... 151
What Is Dirty, and What Is Clean? ... 155
Modernizing the Public, Fetishizing the Pubic ... 160
Covering Territories: State and Border Control ... 164
Lacking Parts ... 168
Postscript ... 174

Notes ... 177
References ... 197
About the Book and Author ... 213
Index ... 217