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Poison woman : figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture by Christine L. Marran is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Poison woman : figuring female transgression in modern Japanese culture about?
Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu </i>(poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during the 1870s. During this tumultuous time, as the nation moved from feudalism to oligarchic government, such accounts articulated the politics and position of underclass women, sexual morality, and female suffrage. Over the next century, the figure of the oversexed female criminal, usually guilty of robbery or murder, became ubiquitous in modern Japane
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christine L. Marran
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816647279
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Gender Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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