Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: “Boys’ Love” as Girls’ Love in Shôjo Manga

2006/03/01 by James Welker · 9 citations
Engineering · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Art #Bent molecular geometry #Engineering #Japanese History and Culture #Literature #Love story #Psychology

paper · doi:10.1086/498987

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Citations

• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema

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