Maiko masquerade : crafting geisha girlhood in Japan /

"Maiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of...

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Author / Creator: Bardsley, Jan (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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