Table of contents : Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Gender in Japanese Art 3. The Image of Women in Battle Scenes: “Sexually” Imprinted Bodies 4. The Gender of Wakashu and the Grammar of Desire 5. Marketing Desire: Advertising and Sexuality in Edo Literature, Drama, and Art 6.Westernizing Bodies: Women, Art, and Power in Meiji Yāga 7. Icons of Femininity: Japanese National Painting and the Paradox of Modernity 8. Images of Women in National Art Exhibitions during the Korean Colonial Period 9. The Otherness of Women in the Avant-Garde Film Woman in the Dunes 10. Gender in Contemporary Japanese Art 11. Busty Battlin’ Babes: The Evolution of the Shōjo in 1990s Visual Culture Notes Bibliography Contributors Index