Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies
Subtitle: devising Kabuki female-likeness
By: Katherine Mezur.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Kabuki; Female impersonators -- Japan
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).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.