2015/01/01 by Leia Atkinson · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Soviet and Russian History #Rabbit (cipher) #Computer science #Computer security
paper · open access · doi:10.20381/ruor-4249
published in uO Research (University of Ottawa) (University of Ottawa)
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An ethnographic work about Japanese women who wear Lolita fashion, based primarily upon anthropological field research that was conducted in Tokyo between May and August 2014. The main purpose of this study is to investigate how and why women wear Lolita fashion despite the contradictions surrounding it. An additional purpose is to provide a new perspective about Lolita fashion through using interview data. Fieldwork was conducted through participant observation, surveying, and multiple semi-structured interviews with eleven women over a three-month period. It was concluded that women wear Lolita fashion for a sense of freedom from the constraints that they encounter, such as expectations placed upon them as housewives, students or mothers. The thesis provides a historical chapter, a chapter about fantasy with ethnographic data, and a chapter about how women who wear Lolita fashion are related to other fashions as well as the Cool Japan campaign.