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Gender Gymnastics Performing And Consuming Japans Takarazuka Revue Illustrated Leonie Stickland

SKU: BELL-38466302

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Gender Gymnastics Performing And Consuming Japans Takarazuka Revue Illustrated Leonie Stickland instant download after payment.

Publisher: Trans Pacific Press

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.41 MB

Pages: 281

Author: Leonie Stickland, Leonie Stickland PhD

ISBN: 9781876843519, 1876843519

Language: English

Year: 2008

Edition: Illustrated

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Gender Gymnastics Performing And Consuming Japans Takarazuka Revue Illustrated Leonie Stickland by Leonie Stickland, Leonie Stickland Phd 9781876843519, 1876843519 instant download after payment.

The 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 femininity of their female-role counterparts. This volume resounds with the voices of those closest to Takarazuka, the girls and women who have danced, sung, and acted in its limelight. Using exclusive interviews, historical records, autobiographies, and years of close-hand observations, former Revue translator and voice actor Leonie Stickland extensively explores the aspirations, endeavors, and experiences of Takarazuka's creators, performers, and adoring fans. Stickland's book simultaneously elucidates gender issues which have impacted upon the life-stages of women in Japan throughout the past century.