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Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan
Jennifer Robertson
Year: 2008, c1998.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Dedication
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
REVIEWING THE REVUE
THE CALL OF DUTY
GENDERING PERFORMANCE
NOMENCLATURE
STATION BREAK
PREVIEWING THE BOOK
1: Ambivalence and Popular Culture
EXCESS AND POPULAR CULTURE
IDEOLOGIES OF POPULAR CULTURE
JAPANESE TERMINOLOGY
UBIQUITY VERSUS POPULARITY
SEXUALITY AND AMBIVALENCE
THE OFFICIAL STORY
2: Staging Androgyny
DISRUPTING STEREOTYPES
WORDS AND USAGES
CROSS-DRESSING HISTORICALLY
CONCEPTUALIZING ANDROGYNY
METHODS OF ANDROGYNY
FEMALE SEXUALITIES AND THE "WOMAN PROBLEM"
ANDROGYNY AS ERASURE
POSTWAR ANDROGYNY
ANDROGYNY REVUE
ANDROGYNY AS AMBIVALENCE
3: Performing Empire
MADE IN JAPAN
ASSIMILATION ONSTAGE AND OFF
JAPANESE ORIENTALISM
COLONIALISM AS THEATER, THEATER AS COLONIALISM
INTERMISSION: FROM MON PARIS TO MON JAPON
SITING THEATER
REVUE THEATER AS MONTAGE
CLAIMING "THE PEOPLE" THEATRICALLY
JAPANIZING THE THEATER
ORIENTALISM: MADE IN JAPAN
IDENTITY AND ASSIMILATION
MON PARIS, MON JAPON
4: Fan Pathology
FANDOM
DISCIPLINING AUDIENCES
FANNING DESIRE
MISS DANDIES
CLAIMING A FEMALE AUDIENCE
ENTER THE SHOJO
FAN CLUBS
MALE FANS
SISTER
5: Writing Fans
FAN LETTERS AND MAGAZINES
WRITING SHŌJO
SUICIDE AND FANDOM
FAN EROTICS
NEW HALF
ANYTHING GAOS?
Epilogue
STRATEGIC AMBIVALENCE
Notes
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: AMBIVALENCE AND POPULAR CULTURE
CHAPTER 2: STAGING ANDROGYNY
CHAPTER 3: PERFORMING EMPIRE
CHAPTER 4: FAN PATHOLOGY
CHAPTER 5: WRITING FANS
EPILOGUE
Bibliography
JAPANESE SOURCES
ENGLISH AND OTHER SOURCES
Index
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Title: Takarazuka : sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Jennifer Robertson.
Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen
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Robertson, Jennifer Ellen
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008, c1998.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.94082
Subject Headings: • Takarazuka Kagekidan
• Ethnology -- Japan
• Theater -- Japan
• Popular culture -- Japan
• Sex role -- Japan
• Social structure -- Japan
• Musicals -- Japan
• Japan -- Social life and customs
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