Womens Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society. Manga illuminate how women have been treated stereotypically and confined to their gender roles. Fictional characterssurrogates for both creators and readershave continuously challenged and subverted fixed cultural images, notions, and expressions of women.
The first section of the book features research articles on the depiction of women in manga. Contributions of chapters come from scholars in diverse fields, including manga studies, history, art education, literary studies, and gender studies. The second section presents the life stories of prominent women artists Watanabe Masako (b.1929), Mizuno Hideko (b.1939), and Satonaka Machiko (b.1948), capturing their voices and social messages through interviews. Finally, the third section introduces a translated manga, Abe: A Young Woman Emperor-in-Waiting, created by Satonaka Machiko, which features one of the six Japanese female Emperors in history, Kken Tenn (later Shtoku Tenn) of the 8th century.
Womens Voices in Manga showcases womens issues, portrayals, and lives. The book underscores mangas cultural function to disseminate expressions of womens issues across society, inviting readers to relate these issues to their own lives.
Part I. Womens Portrayals and Voices in Manga.- 1. Maternal
Monstrosities in Horror Manga: Umezu Kazuo's Snake Ladies and Scary Mommies
- Jon Holt.- 2. Hidden Flowers Depictions of Sexuality in Shjo and
Redikomi Versions of The Tale of Genji - Emerald L King.-
3. The Zany
Aesthetic of Manga for WomenA Reading of Anno Moyokos Happy Mania - Luciana
Sanga.- 4. Don Your Armor!: The Politics of Dress in Higashimura Akikos
Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime) - Keiko Miyajima.- 5. The Landlady and I
(ya-san to boku): The Tale of an Elderly Womans Life - Barbara Hartley.-
6. The Malaise of the Modern Family: Examining Depictions of Child Abuse in
Manga - Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase.- 7. Comics at the Intersection of Womanhood
and Disability: Essay Manga, Affect, and Community - Shige (CJ) Suzuki.-
8. Mangas 2.5 D Women: Professional Cosplayers in Mens Manga Magazines
- Mia Lewis.- 9. Rethinking Gender and Genre in Contemporary Womens Manga
- Rebecca Suter.- PART II. Womens Lives.- 10. The Legacy of the Artists of
Shjo Mangas Early Phase: Analysis of the Shj Manga Roundtable - Nozomi
Masuda, Translated by Joshua Rogers.- 11. Reflections on the Touring
Exhibition World of Shojo Manga (2005-2023) - Masami Toku.- 12. Interviews
with Three Legendary Manga-ka - Interviewed and edited by Masami Toku and
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase.- Part 1: The Path of Manga Artist Watanabe
MasakoManga is Entertainment! It Must be InterestingWatanabe Masako,
Translated by Jessica Hiroshima Misiorek.- Part 2: An Interview with Mizuno
HidekoI am not a Shjo Manga Artist. I dont Want a LabelMizuno Hideko,
Translated by Emerald L King.- Part 3: An Interview with Machiko
SatonakaDraw Believing Youre Helping Someone, Somewhere in the
WorldSatonaka Machiko, Translated by Rachael Charlow Lenz.- PART III.
Reinterpreted History.- 13. Abe: A Young Woman Emperor-in-Waiting by Satonaka
Machiko.- Part 1: Translators NotesBarbara Hartley.- Part 2: Abe: A Young
Woman Emperor-in-Waiting (from Memoires of Woman Emperor)Satonaka Machiko,
Translated by Barbara Hartley.
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is an associate professor of Japanese language and literature at Vassar College, USA. Her areas of research include Japanese womens literature, girls magazine culture, and manga. She is the author of Age of Shjo: Emergence, Evolution and Power of Girls Magazine Fiction in Japan (2019). She has co-edited Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education (2020) with Masami Toku.
Masami Toku is a professor of art education at California State University, Chico, USA. Her research interest is the cross-cultural study of childrens artistic development and how visual pop-culture influences childrens visual literacy. One of her major projects was the international touring exhibition of Girls Power! Shojo Manga! (2005-2023). She has published a large number of articles, book reviews, book chapters, exhibition catalogs, and books.
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