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202 Novala Takemoto, Kamikaze Girls (San Francisco: VIZ Media LLC, 2006), p. 5.
203 Yuniya Kawamura, op. cit., p. 344; in reference to Dick Hebdige, Hiding in the Light: On Images and
Things (London: Routledge, 1988), p. 27.
204 Yuniya Kawamura, op. cit., p. 344.
205 Anoop Nayak and Mary Jane Kehily, Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and Femininities
(Houndmills and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), p. 53; in reference to Angela McRobbie
and Jenny Garber, “Girls and Subcultures” (1975), in Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in
Postwar Britain, eds. Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson (London: Hutchinson, 1976).
206 See Lynda Nead, Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1988); John Ruskin, “Of Queens’ Gardens”, in Sesame and Lilies (London: George Allen
Unwin, 1919); and Janet Wolff, “The Culture of Separate Spheres: The Role of Culture in
Nineteenth-century Public and Private Life”, in The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenthcentury
Middle Class, eds. Janet Wolff and John Seed (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
1988).
207 Hannah J. L. Feldman, op. cit., p. 52.
208 Ibid.
209 David McNeill, “Lolita’s Bard is Sitting Pretty”, The Japan Times, November 21, 2004.
210 Francis Henville, “Gothic Lolita”, Think Magazine: Subculture, no. 20.
211 Ibid.
212 Sheila Burgel, “Dark and Lovely”, Bust 44 (April/May, 2007), p. 77.
213 Ibid.
214 Ibid.
215 Francis Henville, op. cit.
216 See Ginny Parker, op. cit.
217 See Deborah Cameron, “Where There’s a Frill, There’s a Way to Keep Men at Bay”, The Sydney
Morning Herald, July 29, 2006.
218 Ibid.
219 Isaac Gagné, “Urban Princesses: Performance and ‘Women’s Language’ in Japan’s
Gothic/Lolita Subculture”, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 18, no. 1 (2008), p. 139.
220 Isaac Gagné, Ibid. p. 141.
221 Ibid.
222 Susan J. Napier, “Vampires, Psychic Girls, Flying Women, and Sailor Scouts: Four Faces of the
Young Female in Japanese Popular Culture”, in The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting
Boundaries and Global Culture, ed. Dolores P. Martinez (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998), p. 91.
223 Mari Kotani, “Metamorphosis of the Japanese Girl: The Girl, the Hyper-Girl, and the Battling
Beauty”, in Mechadamia, Vol. 1, ed. Frenchy Lunning (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2006), p. 167.
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