Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
—Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics
2013
—Fuck
2006
—Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
2025
—The Class of ‘92
2013
—The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
2008
—McQueen
2018
—Joy Division
2009
—Naqoyqatsi
2002
—Champs
2015
—Directed by John Ford
1971
—Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
—Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
2018
