Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue Lance J. Herdegen Jake Chandler

Jake Chandler

This is not your average relationship book

ISBN13: 9781709529344

ISBN13: 9781580512107

Gender Gymnastics: Performing and Consuming Japan's Takarazuka Revue Lance J. Herdegen Jake ChandlerThe 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