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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On 11/21/09 2:25 AM, "Michael Raine" <<a href="mjraine@uchicago.edu">mjraine@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Has anyone written about the corollary (albeit often<BR>
dismissive and still dimorphic) figuration of "feminine<BR>
masculinity" in the 1950s? It's not necessarily specific to<BR>
film but phrases like "sister boy" seem to have gained<BR>
currency in the mid-50s and Maruyama/Miwa Akihiro was famous<BR>
after 1957. And Kitahara herself was supposedly impersonated<BR>
by the transvestite "madam" of an Asakusa bar who was "better<BR>
at being a woman than she was"... seems like that would be<BR>
something worth studying too.<BR>
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I don’t know, but Hideko Abe is about to publish a book on queer speech in postwar Japan, and there’s a chapter on the dansho of the occupation era. This is almost certainly those films’ historical precursor, which did edge into popular culture with a famous riot in Ueno. <BR>
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(The book also looks at Miwa’s speech, but only through analysis of recent television appearances.)<BR>
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Markus</SPAN></FONT>
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