Sharon Kinsella

ANALYSIS OF MALE SUBCULTURES, GIRLS STREET CULTURE AND STYLE, CULTURE INDUSTRIES, MALE JOURNALISM, AND FEMALE CULTURAL REACTION, IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL&POLITICAL DISCOURSES AND LABOUR MARKET TRANSFORMATION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN

Sharon Kinsella is currently a senior lecturer in Japanese contemporary culture and society at the University of Manchester. She got her Ph.D (Sociology) from Oxford University in 1996, following a BA in Economic History (LSE). She has worked in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, and Yale previously.

During the 1990s to the present, she has been involved in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research looking at emergent social trends linking youth, men, 'girls', the media, subculture, corporate culture and new modes of governance, based on Japanese case studies with global application. Areas of special focus include cuteness and resistance, schoolgirl and _gyaru_ culture and reaction, Japanese transracialism, otaku subculture, the manga industry, men's comics and weekly news magazines, _josō_ and _otoko no ko_ gender-performance culture of the 2010s, and male cultural imagination and journalism.

At present Sharon is researching responses to male cultural imagination and hegemony amongst women, and the broader emerging contexts of low fertility society and transformations of relationships and media.

Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan

Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan analyses the cult of schoolgirls in contemporary Japan and the interaction of girls’ street fashions - ganguro and kogyaru - and male journalistic and subcultural forms organised predominantly around the fetishistic portrayal of young girls and schoolgirls. This is an exposition of the dense web of political and cultural symbolism surrounding images of at times racialised, sexualised and rebellious girls which link directly to complex and enduring sentiments about female emancipation.

BOOK (2000)
Adult Manga: Culture and power in contemporary Japanese society

Female Revolt in Male Cultural Imagination in Contemporary Japan
PUBLISHED LECTURE (2007)
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The Fourth Chino Kaori Memorial 'New Vision' Lecture, October 2006, London (Printed in 2007 English and Japanese.)

The following books are published and available, links are included to those available online

Statistics and Narratives: How Compensated Dating Was Sold

in Yuki Imoto and Roger Goodman eds., Youth Problems in Japan, (2012)

Minstrelized girls: Male Performers of Japan’s Lolita Complex

in Japan Forum, 18(1), March 2006, 65-87

Blackfaces, Witches and Racism Against Girls

in Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley eds. Bad Girls of Japan, New York: Palgrave, 2005, 142-157
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Ganguro: Racial and Transracial looks in Japanese girls' culture

(in Japanese) in Aoyagi Hiroshi and Tosa Masaaki eds. Choetsu Suru Popyura- Bunka to Sozo no Ajia, Tokyo: Mekon Sha, 2005, 43-71

What's behind the fetishism of schoolgirls' uniforms in Japan?

(article) in the journal Fashion Theory 6:2, June 2002
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Feticci in uniforme: il fenomeno kogyaru

(chapter), pages 91-110

Disegni a rischio: gli otaku e il movimento del manga amatoriale

(chapter), pages 181-219 in Alessandro Gomarasca ed. La bambola e il robottone. Culture pop nel Giappone contemporaneo, Einaudi: Torino, 2001

An Interview with Oe Kenzaburo

in Japan Forum, 12(2) 2000,pages 229-237
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Japanese high-school girl brand

in Brand.new, Jane Pavitt ed. London: V & A Publications, September 2000, pages 104-105 Adult Manga: Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society (book) Curzon Press & Hawaii University Press, June 2000

Tolerance, politics and the Japanese imagination

(Interview with the novelist and Nobel prize winner, Oe Kenzaburo)
in Prometheus Issue 3, March 2000

Pop-culture and the balance of power in Japan

(article) Media. Culture & Society, Vol. 21: 567-572, Summer 1999

Les manga apprivoises : la culture japonaise de la fin du siecle

(article) in Manga: Une plongee dans un choix d'histoires courtes
printed by the Maison de la culture du Japon Paris, October 1999

Amateur manga subculture and the manga otaku panic

(article) in Journal of Japanese Studies, Washington University Press, Summer 1998
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Di "giapponizzazione" dei giovani in Europa

[The Japanization of European youth] (article) in the book NightWave97,
Carlo Branzaglia ed. Milan: Costa & Nolan, May 1998

Changes in the social status, form and content of adult manga between 1985-1995

(article) in Japan Forum, Routledge, Spring 1996

Cuties in Japan

(chapter) in Women, Media and Consumption in Japan
Brian Moeran and Lise Scov eds. Curzon & Hawaii University Press, 1995
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Additional Online Content

In addition to the items above, others are available from the links below .

TRANSLATIONS

Exchange of developed ideas and enquiries about obtaining Italian, French and Japanese translations of published articles can be posted to sharon@kinsellaresearch.com in Japanese or English.