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Gender and Sexuality in Shoujo Manga: Undoing Heteronormative Expectations in Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary

Hurford, Emily M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1250882984

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2009, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, English/Literature.
This study examines how gender and sexuality operate within English-language translations of shoujo manga, the genre of Japanese comic books that are marketed for young female audiences. This study uses the theoretical work of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Judith Halberstam to do an explicitly queer, feminist close reading of Revolutionary Girl Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary, three manga titles whose protagonists perform their own genders and sexualities in ways that run counter to or subvert heterosexual expectations. It argues that dislocating shoujo manga titles from their Japanese context, which constructs gender and sexuality in ways that are different from how gender and sexuality are constructed within theUnited States, provides a space in which heteronormative constructions of gender and sexuality are challenged or questioned, and suggests that English translations of Japanese manga titles provides rich grounds for rethinking gender and sexuality.
Ellen Berry, PhD (Advisor)
Kimberly Coates, PHD (Committee Member)
78 p.
Gender; Literature; Womens Studies
manga; gender; sexuality; shoujo; heteronormativity

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  • Hurford, E. M. (2009). Gender and Sexuality in Shoujo Manga: Undoing Heteronormative Expectations in Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1250882984

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hurford, Emily. Gender and Sexuality in Shoujo Manga: Undoing Heteronormative Expectations in Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary. 2009. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1250882984.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hurford, Emily. "Gender and Sexuality in Shoujo Manga: Undoing Heteronormative Expectations in Utena, Pet Shop of Horrors, and Angel Sanctuary." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1250882984

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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