Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness

By Katherine Mezur

Book Overview

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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349529915
• ISBN13: 9781349529919
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"