The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

Education:
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1986
MA, University of Chicago, 1979
BA, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1975

Curriculum Vitae

Expertise:
Gender
Mass Culture
Neoliberalism
Asia
Sexuality
Popular Culture
Political Economy
Gender
Globalization of Culture
Marxism
Urban Anthropology
Transnationalism

Current projects: Sociality of the present: Japanese kids, family, and affect in the 21st century.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Allison, A, The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 26 no. 3 (Spring, 2009), pp. 89-111 [repository], [doi]  [abs].
2. A. Allison, Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture, in Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization, edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham (Summer, 2009), School of American Research [PDF].
3. Allison, A, Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence, in Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Summer, 2006), pp. 163-191, University of California Press  [abs] [author's comments].
4. Allison, A, Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus, in Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (2000), pp. 81-104, University of California Press .
5. Allison, A, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), University of Chicago Press .

Areas of Interest:
Japan
global culture