Sharon Kinsella
Biographic Data
| ID | 192754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Kinsella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinsella |
| SIGNATURE | KINSELLA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3542-3778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Male Subcultures in Japan
In Japan, younger male generations who might identify themselves sub-culturally as 'love market dropouts' or more unhappily as 'unpopular' ( himote ), are also theorized as 'sexual weaklings' who have become unable to adapt and survive the processes of neoliberalism or female empowerment. Evidence shows that the structural and sexual marginalization of these men is configured with changes in employment structures, involving a forced flow of men i…
The Effects of a 16-Week School-Based Exercise Program on Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Physical activity interventions have been shown to decrease anxiety in children with ASD. There is little known regarding the effects of an exercise program on anxiety in both home and school settings and the optimal dosage to reduce anxiety. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the effects of a 16-week exercise program on the anxiety levels of children with moderate to severe symptoms of ASD in home and school settings, and to compare …
Cuteness, josō, and the need to appeal
This article explores the rise of specific new modes of gender ambivalence from within male subculture and mass media in the 2000s and examines the emergence of the cute cross-dressing ‘otoko no ko’. The broader context of this emerging orientation towards girlishness and cuteness is the now widely-documented circumstances of the recessionary period, particularly in the decade from the steepening of the recession and labor market deregulation fro…
Adult Manga
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become central to urban mythology and the content of culture. The cul…
Minstrelized girls
There may be a useful parallel between the intense male cultural interest in and production of girl (shōjo/gyaru) characters in modern Japan, particularly in the last two decades of the twentieth century, and the phenomenon of blackface minstrelsy in the north-eastern states of America in the mid-nineteenth century. Between the 1840s and the 1880s white vaudeville entertainers, including a high proportion of Irish men, blacked up with greasepaint…
Black Faces, Witches, and Racism against Girls
This is an original article drawn from my work on schoolgirls in the media in the 1990s
What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms
(2002). What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms? Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 215-237
Adult Manga
Adult Manga
Les manga apprivoisés
Kinsella Sharon. Les manga apprivoisés : la culture japonaise de la fin du siècle. In: Critique internationale, vol. 7. 2000. Culture populaire et politique, sous la direction de Denis-Constant Martin. pp. 1-9
An interview with Oe Kenzaburo
Keywords: LiteratureMillenniumNew PeopleRomanticismSakakibara IncidentChild-MurderJapan IdeologyPolitical ImaginationHumanismTolerance
Pro-establishment manga
Japanese Subculture in the 1990s
Comments On McVeigh (1996)
Change in the social status, form and content of adult manga, 1986–1996
During the 1960s the Japanese manga medium grew rapidly and transformed from a radical youth culture into a new national medium. Manga provided a public space for the communication of taboo interests and desires and often dissident political attitudes which could not be expressed elsewhere in Japanese society. The manga industry exhibited a distinctive ‘populism’ and actively recruited young manga artists from all sections of society in contradic…
Adult Manga
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors
What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms
(2002). What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms? Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 215-237
Japanese Subculture in the 1990s
Cuteness, josō, and the need to appeal
This article explores the rise of specific new modes of gender ambivalence from within male subculture and mass media in the 2000s and examines the emergence of the cute cross-dressing ‘otoko no ko’. The broader context of this emerging orientation towards girlishness and cuteness is the now widely-documented circumstances of the recessionary period, particularly in the decade from the steepening of the recession and labor market deregulation fro…
Male Subcultures in Japan
In Japan, younger male generations who might identify themselves sub-culturally as 'love market dropouts' or more unhappily as 'unpopular' ( himote ), are also theorized as 'sexual weaklings' who have become unable to adapt and survive the processes of neoliberalism or female empowerment. Evidence shows that the structural and sexual marginalization of these men is configured with changes in employment structures, involving a forced flow of men i…
Minstrelized girls
There may be a useful parallel between the intense male cultural interest in and production of girl (shōjo/gyaru) characters in modern Japan, particularly in the last two decades of the twentieth century, and the phenomenon of blackface minstrelsy in the north-eastern states of America in the mid-nineteenth century. Between the 1840s and the 1880s white vaudeville entertainers, including a high proportion of Irish men, blacked up with greasepaint…
Change in the social status, form and content of adult manga, 1986–1996
During the 1960s the Japanese manga medium grew rapidly and transformed from a radical youth culture into a new national medium. Manga provided a public space for the communication of taboo interests and desires and often dissident political attitudes which could not be expressed elsewhere in Japanese society. The manga industry exhibited a distinctive ‘populism’ and actively recruited young manga artists from all sections of society in contradic…
Change in the social status, form and content of adult manga, 1986–1996
During the 1960s the Japanese manga medium grew rapidly and transformed from a radical youth culture into a new national medium. Manga provided a public space for the communication of taboo interests and desires and often dissident political attitudes which could not be expressed elsewhere in Japanese society. The manga industry exhibited a distinctive ‘populism’ and actively recruited young manga artists from all sections of society in contradic…
Comments On McVeigh (1996)
Japanese Subculture in the 1990s
Pro-establishment manga
Les manga apprivoisés
Kinsella Sharon. Les manga apprivoisés : la culture japonaise de la fin du siècle. In: Critique internationale, vol. 7. 2000. Culture populaire et politique, sous la direction de Denis-Constant Martin. pp. 1-9
An interview with Oe Kenzaburo
Keywords: LiteratureMillenniumNew PeopleRomanticismSakakibara IncidentChild-MurderJapan IdeologyPolitical ImaginationHumanismTolerance
Adult Manga
What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms
(2002). What's Behind the Fetishism of Japanese School Uniforms? Fashion Theory: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 215-237
Adult Manga
Black Faces, Witches, and Racism against Girls
This is an original article drawn from my work on schoolgirls in the media in the 1990s
Minstrelized girls
There may be a useful parallel between the intense male cultural interest in and production of girl (shōjo/gyaru) characters in modern Japan, particularly in the last two decades of the twentieth century, and the phenomenon of blackface minstrelsy in the north-eastern states of America in the mid-nineteenth century. Between the 1840s and the 1880s white vaudeville entertainers, including a high proportion of Irish men, blacked up with greasepaint…
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Japanese society in the 1990s and 2000s produced a range of complicated material about sexualized schoolgirls, and few topics have caught the imagination of western observers so powerfully. While young Japanese girls had previously been portrayed as demure and obedient, in training to become the obedient wife and prudent mother, in recent years less than demure young women have become central to urban mythology and the content of culture. The cul…
Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan
Adult Manga
First detailed analysis of the phenomenon in English. Describes and analyses the complex new attitudes to manga since the 1980s. Provocative and timely, the book shows how manga's status in Japanese society is intimately linked to changes in the balance of power between artists and editors
Cuteness, josō, and the need to appeal
This article explores the rise of specific new modes of gender ambivalence from within male subculture and mass media in the 2000s and examines the emergence of the cute cross-dressing ‘otoko no ko’. The broader context of this emerging orientation towards girlishness and cuteness is the now widely-documented circumstances of the recessionary period, particularly in the decade from the steepening of the recession and labor market deregulation fro…
The Effects of a 16-Week School-Based Exercise Program on Anxiety in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Physical activity interventions have been shown to decrease anxiety in children with ASD. There is little known regarding the effects of an exercise program on anxiety in both home and school settings and the optimal dosage to reduce anxiety. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the effects of a 16-week exercise program on the anxiety levels of children with moderate to severe symptoms of ASD in home and school settings, and to compare …
Male Subcultures in Japan
In Japan, younger male generations who might identify themselves sub-culturally as 'love market dropouts' or more unhappily as 'unpopular' ( himote ), are also theorized as 'sexual weaklings' who have become unable to adapt and survive the processes of neoliberalism or female empowerment. Evidence shows that the structural and sexual marginalization of these men is configured with changes in employment structures, involving a forced flow of men i…
Japanese History and Culture (13 works) · Art (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (9 works) · History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)