performing arts reference question

[Jonathan M. Hall]

Hi Anne: 

Jennifer Robertson's work starts with Taisho I believe, so may be slightly
off the specific period your looking at.  Still, she looks precisely at the
question of cross-dressing and its historical significance.  One of these
articles is more historical than the others, but I can't remember which
one.  And many Robertson's book on Takarazuka is out?

Robertson, Jennifer. "Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing 'Female' and 'Male'
in Japan."  Genders. 5  (1989): 188-207.

---.  "Mon Japon: The Revue Theater as a Technology of Japanese
Imperialism."   American Ethnologist. 22.4 (1995): 970-996.

---.  "The Politics of Anrdogyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion in the
Theater and  Beyond." American Ethnologist. 19.3 (1992): 419-442.

I just came across early keisatsu-cho ordinances c. M10 that forbade
cross-dressing except for kabuki actors, and would be happy to pass them
along.  But, then again, not Meiji 30s material.

Jonathan

Jonathan M. Hall
-Ph.D. Cand., Dep't. of Representation & Culture, Univ. of Tokyo
-Ph.D. Cand., History of Consciousness Dep't., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
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