Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness
Katherine Mezur
332 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1403967121
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Language: English
Publish: 1155884400000
This book is a feminist reading of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnogata, of the Kabuki theatre. It is not limited to a ‘theatre arts’ focus, rather it is a mapping and close analysis of transformative genders through several historical periods in Japan (the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries).