Yasheng She

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yasheng She is involved.

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She, Yasheng 2023 A cure for woundless pain: Consumption of innocence in Japanese idol culture Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement, Omori, Kikuko and Hiroshi Ota (eds.), pp. 87–102 | Article
As a cultural construct, the idol is a consumer product created to “heal” in the age of exhaustion. Layering a “guardian” aspect onto Laura Mulvey’s “male gaze,” this paper contextualizes the commodification and consumption of innocence. This paper brings the documentary, Tokyo Idols (2017), and… read more
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