Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies : devising Kabuki female-likeness / Katherine Mezur.
This book is a feminist reading of the history of gender performance and construction of the female role players, onnagata, of the Kabuki theater. It is not limited to a "theater arts" focus, rather it is a mapping and close analysis of transformative genders through several historical per...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Transforming genders
- 2. Theory into performance
- 3. Precursors and unruly vanguards
- 4. Star designing and myth making
- 5. Modernity, nation, and eros : boys versus women
- 6. The aesthetics of female-likeness
- 7. The intentional body
- 8. Performative gender role types
- 9. Toward a new alchemy of gender, sex, and sexuality.