everything you need to know about the history of gyaru and the predatory male-media culture

hi! i thought i would share with u guys what i learnt about the gyaru subculture. and i definitely do plan to do a part 2 focusing more on the “japanese schoolgirl” figure in the future. SOURCES: Disciplining the Japanese Body: Gender, Power and Skin Color in Japan —Evdokia Angelaka The Japanese Schoolgirl Figure: Renegotiation of Power through Societal Construction, Masking a Crisis of Masculinity — Sarah Hamm Ganguro in Japanese Youth Culture: Self-Identity in Cultural Conflict — Xuexin Liu The Emergence of Trendsetters for Fashions and Fads: Kogaru in 1990s Japan —Tadashi Suzuki and Joel Best Those Naughty Teenage Girls: Japanese Kogals, Slangs and Media Assessments — Laura Miller SCHOOLGIRLS, MONEY AND REBELLION IN JAPAN — Sharon Kinsella Bad Girls from Good Families: The Degenerate Meiji Schoolgirl — Melanie Czarnecki Black Faces, Witches, and Racism against Girls — Sharon Kinsella The History of the Gyaru part 2 and 3 — http://neojaponisme.com/2012/05/08/th... http://neojaponisme.com/2012/06/06/th...