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Joseimuke
''Joseimuke'' (女性向け) is a Japanese term that is used to refer to a category of media specifically intended to be “targeted towards women.” The Japanese word ''joseimuke'' (女性向け) directly translates to “aimed at women,” and joseimuke media includes but is not limited to video games, TV shows, comics, stage plays, or even pornography, though mostly tied to media in the ACG (subculture), ACG (anime, comics, games) community. Joseimuke itself is not a genre, but a media category, where the media forms under it can encompass various genres. The category of joseimuke and its patterns originated in Japan around the late 1900s and first spread to other East Asian markets, such as those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea starting from the 1970s.Yen, Chih-Ling (2020)"日式動漫風格應用於台灣女性向手遊市場男性角色設計之創作研究 - ProQuest"[Japanese Anime Style applied to the Creation of Taiwanese Josei-muke Male Characters in the Mobile Game M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Lit
"Chick lit" is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at women. Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with publishers, with numerous writers and critics rejecting it as inherently sexist. Novels identified as chick lit typically address romantic relationships, female friendships, and workplace struggles in humorous and lighthearted ways. Typical protagonists are urban, heterosexual women in their late twenties and early thirties: the 1990s chick lit heroine represented an evolution of the traditional romantic heroine in her assertiveness, financial independence and enthusiasm for conspicuous consumption. The format developed through the early 1990s on both sides of the Atlantic with books such as Terry McMillan's '' Waiting to Exhale'' (1992, US) and Catherine Alliott's ''The Old Girl Network'' (1994, UK). Helen Fielding's '' Bridget Jones's Diary'' (1996, UK), wildly popular globally, is the "Ur-text" of chick lit, while Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
