{"product_id":"takarazuka-sexual-politics-and-popular-culture-in-modern-japan-paperback-3","title":"Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater. Tracing the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productions over time, with special attention to the World War II period, Robertson illuminates the intricate web of relationships among managers, directors, actors, fans, and social critics, whose clashes and compromises textured the theater and the wider society in colorful and complex ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using Takarazuka as a key to understanding the \"logic\" of everyday life in Japan and placing the Revue squarely in its own social, historical, and cultural context, she challenges both the stereotypes of \"the Japanese\" and the Eurocentric notions of gender performance and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer 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 \u003ci\u003eDisorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and author of \u003ci\u003eNative and Newcomer: Making and Remaking a Japanese City\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 8.98 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45776774987973,"sku":"9780520211513","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/1SbNlAp3SG9780520211513_18a05591-b8ea-4f82-89f7-f55405f69402.webp?v=1770553092","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/takarazuka-sexual-politics-and-popular-culture-in-modern-japan-paperback-3","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}