《宝塚歌剧团研究》是国内率先研究日本剧团的专题性研究，即戏剧组织结构研究。全书分析了宝塚歌剧团的历史沿革、组织构成方式、演出模式和商业开发战略，阐述它和社会文化变迁之间的共生关系，并将它与日本四季剧团、杰尼斯事务所和台湾的艺霞歌舞团进行横向比较，以期在比较和归纳中得出宝塚歌剧团的组织特点、艺术风格及其在商业上的成功原因。 本书把剧团与文化、演员与作品、组织与营销纳入研究视野内，极大地拓宽了戏剧研究的内涵，从单纯作家作品的研究、导演表演的研究、舞台剧场研究，向着更宽厚的领域进展，由此，戏剧研究的空间获得了新的观察维度，经济学的、管理学的、营销学的、文化学的、社会学的理论与方法的进入，将使我们获得全新看待戏剧的视角。

The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this sophisticated and historically grounded analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism, and popular culture in twentieth-century Japan. The Revue was founded in 1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theater. Tracing the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productions over time, with special attention to the World War II period, Robertson illuminates the intricate web of relationships among managers, directors, actors, fans, and social critics, whose clashes and compromises textured the theater and the wider society in colorful and complex ways. Using Takarazuka as a key to understanding the "logic" of everyday life in Japan and placing the Revue squarely in its own social, historical, and cultural context, she challenges both the stereotypes of "the Japanese" and the Eurocentric notions of gender performance and sexuality.