UTS - University of Technology, Sydney
Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences
Department of Writing, Social &
Cultural Studies
Subject no. 50108: Contemporary Cultures
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MISS
MODERN
Tamaki shocks her class by advocating a modern woman's right to
choose her own husband.
The setting
was at the beginning if the 1970s, when Japanese women were part of the
tremendous social change affecting the nation. Haikara were the sophisticated,
fashionable, and most Westernized elements of society - the men identifiable
by their European - style, "high-collar" shirts.
Serialized
during 1975 to 1977 in the weekly Hojo Friend. Waki Yamato, the writer
of this comic.
Miss Modern
(Haikara-san ga Toru = Here Comes a Dandy) can be classified into R (romance),
P (Historical), and C (Comedy).
© Shirley Sutantio
and Joyce Yu, 11 October 1999