Mizunoe Takiko

[Nornes, Markus]

On 11/21/09 2:25 AM, "Michael Raine" <mjraine at uchicago.edu> wrote:

Has anyone written about the corollary (albeit often
dismissive and still dimorphic) figuration of "feminine
masculinity" in the 1950s? It's not necessarily specific to
film but phrases like "sister boy" seem to have gained
currency in the mid-50s and Maruyama/Miwa Akihiro was famous
after 1957. And Kitahara herself was supposedly impersonated
by the transvestite "madam" of an Asakusa bar who was "better
at being a woman than she was"... seems like that would be
something worth studying too.

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.

(The book also looks at Miwa's speech, but only through analysis of recent television appearances.)

Markus
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