Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue Lance J. Herdegen ISBN13: 9781709529344

ISBN13: 9781709529344

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Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue Lance J. Herdegen ISBN13: 9781709529344The artifice of gender performance sometimes playful, mostly conscientious has enthralled and entertained audiences of Japan's all female Takarazuka Revue for more than 90 years. The dashing male role players in its musical theatre productions enjoy the adulation of a predominantly female audience for whom these handsome idols represent ideal masculinity, while, at the same time, these 'men' in turn are reflected and magnified by the overwrought