Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies

Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness

• Author(s): K. Mezur,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 319
• ISBN_10: 1403979138
  ISBN_13: 9781403979131
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / General , Art / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism , Science / Chemistry / Organic , Performing Arts / Theater / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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).