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Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies : Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness / by K. Mezur.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mezur, Katherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Arts.
- Sex.
- Theater--History.
- Theater.
- Chemistry, Organic.
- Performing arts.
- Asian Culture.
- Gender Studies.
- Theatre History.
- Organic Chemistry.
- Theatre and Performance Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian Culture.
- Arts.
- Gender Studies.
- Theatre History.
- Organic Chemistry.
- Theatre and Performance Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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).
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611364410
- 9781281364418
- 128136441X
- 9781403979131
- 1403979138
- OCLC:
- 560482064
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