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I. Popular Culture

Allison, Anne. Permitted and Prohibited Desire: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Buruma, Ian. Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and other Japanese Cultural Heroes. New York: Pantheon, 1984.

Funabashi, Kuniko. "Pornographic Culture and Sexual Violence." Japanese women: new feminist perspectives on the past, present, and future. Fujimura-Fanselow, Kumiko and Atsuko Kameda, eds. New York : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995.

Gardner, William O. "Selected Bibliography: Manga and Anime." Japanese Visual Culture Website, Middlebury College. <http://s01.middlebury.edu/ja330a/manga/biblio.html>

Martinez, D. P., ed. The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Matsui, Midori. "Little girls were little boys: displaced feminity in the representation of homosexuality in Japanese girls' comics." In Sneja Gunew and Anna Yeatman, eds. Feminism and the Politics of Difference. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993.

Robertson, Gennifer. Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Schoht, Frederik L. Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1996.

Treat, John Whittier, ed. Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

II. Contemporary Japanese Photography

Decter, Joshua. "Noritoshi Hirakawa." Flash Art v 32 ( May / June 1999): 97-99.

Gumpert, Lynn. "Glamour Girls." Art in America 84.7 (1996): 62-65.

Nobuyoshi Araki Website. Hosted by the VCD Department at Bilgi University. October 15, 2000. <http://www.ibun.edu.tr/vcd/araki/index.html>

Schreiber, Rachel. "Cyborgs, Avatars, Laa-laa and Po: the work of Mariko Mori." Afterimage 26.5 (1999): 10-12. 15 Oct. 2000.
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Weiermair, Peter, and Gerald Matt. Japanese Photography: Desire and Void. Zurich: Edition Stemmle, 1997.