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Book Review – Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan

Shamoon, Deborah. Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan. By Deborah Shamoon. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press, 2012. Sarah Frederick. Passionate Friendships takes an ambitiously broad look at 20th century girls’ culture, examining the shōjofrom Meiji literature to 1920s girls’ magazines to 1970s shōjo manga. She argues […]