Title: Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies
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).
Subjects: Female impersonators, Kabuki, Feminism, PERFORMING ARTS, Theater, History & Criticism, Theatre studies, Cultural studies, Sekseverschillen
Places: Japan