Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
| Actor | Role |
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 Mari TanakaNot listed | Not listed |
 Meiko KajiNot listed | Not listed |
 Jitsuko YoshimuraNot listed | Not listed |
 Rumi KoyamaNot listed | Not listed |
 Nana KataseNot listed | Not listed |
 Yoko OnoNot listed | Not listed |
| YYayoi KusamaNot listed | Not listed |
 Rin TakanashiNot listed | Not listed |
 Laura MillerAnthropologist | Anthropologist |