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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825761003321

Autore

Mezur Katherine

Titolo

Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies : devising Kabuki female-likeness / / Katherine Mezur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005

ISBN

1-281-36441-X

9786611364410

1-4039-7913-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

792/.0952

Soggetti

Kabuki

Female impersonators - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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).