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Takarazuka Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

by [Robertson, Jennifer]

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The all-female Takarazuka Revue, founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater, is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork and archival research, Jennifer Robertson explores how the Revue illuminates sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, modernity, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan. By situating the Revue within its social, historical, and cultural contexts, she challenges both stereotypes of "the Japanese" and Eurocentric assumptions about gender performance and sexuality.

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  • University of California Brand
  • Jul 21, 1998 Pub Date:
  • 9780520211513 ISBN-13:
  • 0520211510 ISBN-10:
  • 294.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 8.9 in * 0.67 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: