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Soccer & Society | 2008

Soccer in the USA: ‘holding out for a hero’?

Dolores Martinez

The state of football in the USA is analysed through the example of how womens football grew in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article tries to answer the question of why women’s football is so successful in the USA, but the men’s professional game has yet to really catch on. Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods? Where’s the street‐wise Hercules To fight the rising odds? 1


Contemporary Japan | 2015

Bodies of future memories: the Japanese body in science fiction anime

Dolores Martinez

Abstract This paper analyzes the role of the fighting women in Japanese anime near the end of the twentieth century. It argues that these female heroes are not just shōjo (‘young girls’) who represent Japan the nation, nor are they mere projections of otaku desire, or token women included to attract female fans. Rather than that, I maintain that these female heroes are what could be described as “cyborg goddesses,” who offer an escape from the present’s dilemmas. An analysis of whom and what they are saving reveals a desire to return to an idealized Japanese past, while representing contemporary predicaments and concerns about the future. These heroes embody a form of “honorific individualism” (Ikegami 1995), based on a strong sense of individuality, and they have the potential to generate change by challenging the conformist status quo Abstract 本稿では、20世紀末の日本のアニメにおける戦う女性の役割を分析する。これらのヒロインたちは、ただ単に日本国家を代表する「少女」、また、単なるオタク欲望の投影、あるいは女性ファンを引き付けるための女性像ではないことを示すものである。むしろそれよりも、これらのヒロインたちが今日的なジレンマからの逃避を提供する「サイボーグ女神」として表現されると考える。彼女たちが誰もしくは何を救済しているのかという分析からは、現代の苦境と将来への懸念を表しつつ、理想化された日本の過去に戻りたいという願望が暗示される。これらのヒロインたちは、強い個性に基づき、「名誉ある個人主義」(Ikegami 1995)を具現化する。そして、彼らは現状への順応主義に挑戦することで、変化を生成する可能性がある。


Archive | 2004

Identity and ritual in a Japanese diving village : the making and becoming of person and place

Dolores Martinez


Archive | 2009

Remaking Kurosawa: Translations and Permutations in Global Cinema

Dolores Martinez


Archive | 1998

The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture

Dolores Martinez


Archive | 2007

Pilgrimages and spiritual quests in Japan

Ma. Dolores Rodríguez del Alisal; Peter Ackermann; Dolores Martinez


Archive | 1996

The tourist as deity: ancient continuities in Modern Japan

Dolores Martinez


A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan | 2007

On the “Nature” of Japanese Culture, or, is there a Japanese Sense of Nature?

Dolores Martinez


Soccer & Society | 2008

Epilogue: Global Football

Dolores Martinez


Archive | 1997

Burlesquing Knowledge: Japanese quiz shows and models of knowledge

Dolores Martinez

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University of Central Lancashire

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