1. What is shojo manga
... desire, and thus, she is virgin and innocent only because she awaits a man to explore her sexuality. She is not the object of nostalgia but of fetish eroticism. Girls' shojo is, as Treat says, the nostalgia for the past, and culture of girls. Shojo in this sense must be perfectly disembodied and bleached of bodily relationship (sex and family), which is impossible unless these filthy relations ... we cannot see but knows (this is tricky!) that it is inside the body is also something beyond the body. Zizek applied this idea to his theory of the Woman as the object of sexual desire and co...
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