Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history.\ In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of...
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"Jennifer Robertson casts the Takarazuka Revue as a hybrid protagonist in her innovative and demystifying analysis of sexual, social, and national order and disorder in twentieth-century Japan."—Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, author of Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America Norton Shakespeare This thoughtful, learned, and subtle analysis of the all-female revue, Takarazuka, deserves a wide audience. The paradoxes of the Revue's staging of conventional gender roles, its simultaneous reinforcement and subversion of the normal cast a fascinating light on Japanese culture.
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction11Ambivalence and Popular Culture252Staging Androgyny473Performing Empire894Fan Pathology1395Writing Fans177Epilogue209Notes217Bibliography237Index265
\ Norton ShakespeareThis thoughtful, learned, and subtle analysis of the all-female revue, Takarazuka, deserves a wide audience. The paradoxes of the Revue's staging of conventional gender roles, its simultaneous reinforcement and subversion of the normal cast a fascinating light on Japanese culture.\ \
