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Gender-Bending And Fluid Sexuality? In Japan, They’ve Been Doing That For Centuries

ISSUES Posted: March 3, 2017 7:34 am

The “genderless” young hipster types in Tokyo and Osaka who’ve been getting press coverage lately are by no means a new phenomenon there. Anthropologist Jennifer Robertson, who has spent much of her life in Japan, gives the history, from cross-dressing eighth-century women to bisexual aristocrats in classical literature to foppish 19th-century “high-collar” men to the very popular Takarazuka Revue, considered avant-garde when it opened in 1914.

ISSUES Published: 02.28.17

Read the story in The Conversation Published: 02.28.17

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