Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness

Mezur, K.

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).

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2006-08-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403967121

DOI: 10.1057/9781403979131

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 319