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. How the subculture is perceived by outsiders;
c. What participation in the movement reflects;
d. The relationship of dolls and doll culture to the movement;
e. Japan’s traditional and historical connections with dolls;
f. The psychological inferences of dressing as a doll;
g. The implications of adults who collect and or play with dolls;
h. The psychology behind kawaii, or kawaisa (cuteness) and its
connections with the doll-like image of the Lolita;
3. The Lolita subculture as a new feminist movement:
a. Its relationship to notions of “Lolita”, especially in terms of the
Nabokovian connection to the term and what this implies;
b. The sexual connotations of the movement;
c. Its connections and relationships to sexual material;
d. How the movement determines to resist sexualised imagery and
sexual connotations;
e. The position of women in Japan and how this movement defies
traditional, historical patriarchal constructs.
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