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Ovo jedinstveno sociološko izdanje, bogato uređeno fotografijama i ilustracijama, po prvi put donosi opširniju obradu specifičnih japanskih subkultura nastajalih od 1960-ih godina do danas, izgrađenih na japanskoj djevojačkoj kulturi onna no ko bunka i kulturnim fenomenima shōjo i kawaii. Putem infantilnosti kao deklarativnog odbijanja odrastanja, ekstremnog naglašavanja stereotipno rodne ženstvenosti i konzumerističko-hedonističke igre, japanske subkulture izražavaju otpor prema dominantnoj japanskoj kulturi utemeljenoj na patrijarhatu i tradicionalnim društvenim obrascima. Mlade djevojke i žene stvaraju i predvode alternativni otpor kroz subkulture, a mladići ih slijede, preuzimajući identitet i karakteristike ženske kulture. Vesela, šarena i nevina atmosfera slatkog kawaii lica japanskih subkultura i njihovog tihog i indirektnog otpora potpuno je drugačija od agresivne i seksualizirane slike zapadnih subkultura, što zbunjuje društvene teoretičare, feministe i potrošače. Jedan od ciljeva knjige sociologinje Martine Križanić jest povezati ove specifične subkulturne fenomene s idejom konstruktivnog i produktivnog feminističkog otpora.
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First published January 1, 2014
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May 31, 2014
Obvezno štivo za sve interesetne i ljubitelje modernog Japana i njegove kulture obzirom da knjiga sadrži mnogo zanimljivih fragmenata pojavnosti tog društva koje se na specifičan način uklapaju i zrcale u fenomenu subkulture koju obrađuje. Dakle, biti će zanimljiva i onima kojima nije primarni fokus na subverziji ili modnom izričaju kao primarnom načinu ekspresije iste, već i svima koji žele biti upućeni u današnje struje i trendove Japana, osobito specifikuma njegovog sui generis feminističkog pokreta (otpora :)).
Pisana tečno i neopterećena pretjeranom upotrebom strukovne terminologije ili njene suhoparnosti, obiluje zanimljivim zaključcima i uvidima, te baca drugačiju perspektivu i interpretaciju na ono što mislimo da vidimo i znamo.
Pisana tečno i neopterećena pretjeranom upotrebom strukovne terminologije ili njene suhoparnosti, obiluje zanimljivim zaključcima i uvidima, te baca drugačiju perspektivu i interpretaciju na ono što mislimo da vidimo i znamo.
April 29, 2019
Nisu to samo slatke haljinice i ludi make-up ;)
March 29, 2022
Odličan uvid u japansku kulturu i subkulturu.
February 3, 2017
All good willed and objective people today already realize what feminism is all about: it is one of the most sexist, racist and hypocritical ideologies of modern society. This terrible book proves this once again.
It is a book by Croatian author, and is dealing with Japanese fashion and female subcultures. It is insanely ill intended, one minded, hypocritical, contradictory, subjective and hateful. No surprises there.
I could write a whole book of my own analysing everything wrong with this joke of a "sociological study", but instead I'm just gonna point out some of more prominent sexist and hypocritical claims presented in this garbage.
For instance, shall we start with author's open admiration to violence, beatings, razor fights, robberies and criminal activities committed by female members of some Japanese subcultures? She sees it as a form of emancipation, of course, as a form of proving that females are equally capable as men.
Furthermore, she praises the fashion stile of Japanese female subcultures as a mean to break stereotypes and to fight capitalist and sexist society. Her miserable attempts to prove that female cultures of Japan are actually subversive and anti-capitalist in spirit are laughable, for she simply refuses to see the facts that she praises trends which rely solely on buying expensive and unusual clothes, and there is absolutely nothing anti-capitalist about it. I guess she tries to justify to ferself her own need of brainless shopping, so she can continue to call herself an anticapitalist liberal, lol.
She sees fashion trends as a mean of enslavement of females by males. She argues that sex and race are social constructs and not biological facts. She calls out white males as monsters, and generalises them all as sexual predators. She fails to call Japanese racism what it is, instead she presents is as white racism (???).
Furthermore, in many parts of text she actually unintentionally exposes her claims of horrible oppression of females in modern world and Japan as false claims, but misses to realise what she's done and keeps throwing tantrum against all things male. For example, one of the funniest parts is when she firstly claims that females in Japan are treated like dirt, but only a few sentences later she tells how Japanese females manage all family finances, how they are much less pressed by the societies great demands, how they have a period of a few years in which they are free to do as they please, which is impossible for males, how females control most of family life, how Japanese males, unlike females, have absolutely no room for individual behaviours... and still after all that she calls to resistance against such mistreatments of female gender in modern Japan. I actually think that she might have been drunk while writing this, there is no other explanation except that and endless feminist hypocrisy.
She proceeds to glorify the fact that some of those subcultures completely exclude anything remotely male, but shortly before she was bitching how modern cultures are eliminatin true femininity. Looks like only elimination of femininity is the problem, while complete elimination of masculinity is to be desired, and is to be considered gender equality. Disgusting hypocrite. But again, not surprising, coming from a feminist.
And furthermore, she constantly glorifies asexual or lesbian mindset, while calling for suppressing heterosexuality. Nothing wrong with individually being gay or asexual, but when somebody like her desires to make it a norm for all females just in order to wipe out masculinity and oppressive "normal" sexual intercourse, it gets crystal clear that you are listening to insane female Hitler.
I could continue with this for much longer, but there's no point. Just know that this book is not worth reading for it is completely sexist, hateful and filled with explicit lies. Only thing worth in here is the summed history of Japanese female subcultures, from which you can actually learn some facts, but concerning the boring style of presentation and constant attempts of indoctrination into feminism and spitting on everything male, you'd be smarter to learn about it from the internet.
It is a book by Croatian author, and is dealing with Japanese fashion and female subcultures. It is insanely ill intended, one minded, hypocritical, contradictory, subjective and hateful. No surprises there.
I could write a whole book of my own analysing everything wrong with this joke of a "sociological study", but instead I'm just gonna point out some of more prominent sexist and hypocritical claims presented in this garbage.
For instance, shall we start with author's open admiration to violence, beatings, razor fights, robberies and criminal activities committed by female members of some Japanese subcultures? She sees it as a form of emancipation, of course, as a form of proving that females are equally capable as men.
Furthermore, she praises the fashion stile of Japanese female subcultures as a mean to break stereotypes and to fight capitalist and sexist society. Her miserable attempts to prove that female cultures of Japan are actually subversive and anti-capitalist in spirit are laughable, for she simply refuses to see the facts that she praises trends which rely solely on buying expensive and unusual clothes, and there is absolutely nothing anti-capitalist about it. I guess she tries to justify to ferself her own need of brainless shopping, so she can continue to call herself an anticapitalist liberal, lol.
She sees fashion trends as a mean of enslavement of females by males. She argues that sex and race are social constructs and not biological facts. She calls out white males as monsters, and generalises them all as sexual predators. She fails to call Japanese racism what it is, instead she presents is as white racism (???).
Furthermore, in many parts of text she actually unintentionally exposes her claims of horrible oppression of females in modern world and Japan as false claims, but misses to realise what she's done and keeps throwing tantrum against all things male. For example, one of the funniest parts is when she firstly claims that females in Japan are treated like dirt, but only a few sentences later she tells how Japanese females manage all family finances, how they are much less pressed by the societies great demands, how they have a period of a few years in which they are free to do as they please, which is impossible for males, how females control most of family life, how Japanese males, unlike females, have absolutely no room for individual behaviours... and still after all that she calls to resistance against such mistreatments of female gender in modern Japan. I actually think that she might have been drunk while writing this, there is no other explanation except that and endless feminist hypocrisy.
She proceeds to glorify the fact that some of those subcultures completely exclude anything remotely male, but shortly before she was bitching how modern cultures are eliminatin true femininity. Looks like only elimination of femininity is the problem, while complete elimination of masculinity is to be desired, and is to be considered gender equality. Disgusting hypocrite. But again, not surprising, coming from a feminist.
And furthermore, she constantly glorifies asexual or lesbian mindset, while calling for suppressing heterosexuality. Nothing wrong with individually being gay or asexual, but when somebody like her desires to make it a norm for all females just in order to wipe out masculinity and oppressive "normal" sexual intercourse, it gets crystal clear that you are listening to insane female Hitler.
I could continue with this for much longer, but there's no point. Just know that this book is not worth reading for it is completely sexist, hateful and filled with explicit lies. Only thing worth in here is the summed history of Japanese female subcultures, from which you can actually learn some facts, but concerning the boring style of presentation and constant attempts of indoctrination into feminism and spitting on everything male, you'd be smarter to learn about it from the internet.
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