The Lolita Complex: A Japanese Fashion Subculture and Its Paradoxes

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The Lolita Complex: A Japanese Fashion Subculture and Its Paradoxes

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Auckland University of Technology

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My thesis investigates complex issues implied by and connected with the Japanese movement known generally as Gothic & Lolita (G&L), focussing specifically on the Lolita fashion-based subculture and psychological motivations behind it. It discusses the transmigration of the movement’s ideas from Eastern to Western to Eastern societies, including differing cultural interpretations of “Lolita” and their implications in terms of the Lolita phenomenon, while examining ideologies in context with co...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2011

Creator

Hardy Bernal, Kathryn Adele

URL

https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/2448

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Lolita; Gothic Lolita; Lolita Fashion; Japanese Lolita; Lolita style; Gothloli; Lolicon; Loli; Fashion; Gothic; Subcultures; Gender; Feminism; Fashion Theory; Design History; Art History; Art Theory; Vladimir Nabokov; Visual-Kei; Japanese Fashion Design

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