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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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Mezur, Katherine
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2005.
Subjects:	Kabuki. Female impersonators > Japan. Female impersonators. Japan.