Women’s Voices in Manga

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase is an associate professor of Japanese language and literature at Vassar College, USA. Her areas of research include Japanese women’s literature, girls’ magazine culture, and manga. She is the author of Age of Shōjo: Emergence, Evolution and Power of Girls’ Magazine Fiction in Japan (2019). She has co-edited Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education (2020) with Masami Toku.Masami Toku is a professor of art education at California State University, Chico, USA. Her research interest is the cross-cultural study of children’s artistic development and how visual pop-culture influences children’s visual literacy. One of her major projects was the international touring exhibition of Girls’ Power! Shojo Manga! (2005-2023). She has published a large number of articles, book reviews, book chapters, exhibition catalogs, and books.

• Part I. Women’s Portrayals and Voices in Manga.- 1. Maternal Monstrosities in Horror Manga: Umezu Kazuo's Snake Ladies and Scary Mommies - Jon Holt.- 2. Hidden Flowers – Depictions of Sexuality in Shōjo and Redikomi Versions of The Tale of Genji  - Emerald L King.- 3. The Zany Aesthetic of Manga for Women—A Reading of Anno Moyoko’s Happy Mania - Luciana Sanga.- 4. “Don Your Armor!”: The Politics of Dress in Higashimura Akiko’s Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime) - Keiko Miyajima.- 5. The Landlady and I (Ōya-san to boku): The Tale of an Elderly Woman’s Life - Barbara Hartley.- 6. The Malaise of the Modern Family: Examining Depictions of Child Abuse in Manga - Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase.- 7. Comics at the Intersection of Womanhood and Disability: Essay Manga, Affect, and Community - Shige (CJ) Suzuki.- 8. Manga’s 2.5 D Women: Professional Cosplayers in Men’s Manga Magazines - Mia Lewis.- 9. Rethinking Gender and Genre in Contemporary Women’s Manga - Rebecca Suter.- PART II. Women’s Lives.- 10. The Legacy of the Artists of Shōjo Manga’s Early Phase: Analysis of the “Shōjō Manga Roundtable” - Nozomi Masuda, Translated by Joshua Rogers.- 11. Reflections on the Touring Exhibition “World of Shojo Manga” (2005-2023) - Masami Toku.- 12. Interviews with Three Legendary Manga-ka - Interviewed and edited by Masami Toku and Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase.- Part 1: The Path of Manga Artist Watanabe Masako—Manga is Entertainment! It Must be Interesting―Watanabe Masako, Translated by Jessica Hiroshima Misiorek.- Part 2: An Interview with Mizuno Hideko―I am not a Shōjo Manga Artist. I don’t Want a Label—Mizuno Hideko, Translated by Emerald L King.- Part 3: An Interview with Machiko Satonaka―Draw Believing You’re Helping Someone, Somewhere in the World―Satonaka Machiko, Translated by Rachael Charlow Lenz.- PART III. Reinterpreted History.- 13. Abe: A Young Woman Emperor-in-Waiting by Satonaka Machiko.- Part 1: Translator’s Notes―Barbara Hartley.- Part 2: Abe: A Young Woman Emperor-in-Waiting (from Memoires of Woman Emperor)―Satonaka Machiko, Translated by Barbara Hartley.