02431nam 2200613Ia 450 991045108800332120200520144314.01-281-36441-X97866113644101-4039-7913-810.1057/9781403979131(CKB)1000000000342812(SSID)ssj0000109469(PQKBManifestationID)11795021(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109469(PQKBWorkID)10047232(PQKB)11683596(DE-He213)978-1-4039-7913-1(MiAaPQ)EBC307623(Au-PeEL)EBL307623(CaPaEBR)ebr10135565(CaONFJC)MIL136441(OCoLC)560482064(EXLCZ)99100000000034281220050110d2005 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrBeautiful boys/outlaw bodies[electronic resource] devising Kabuki female-likeness /Katherine Mezur1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillanc20051 online resource (336 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-52991-5 1-4039-6712-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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).KabukiFemale impersonatorsJapanElectronic books.Kabuki.Female impersonators792/.0952Mezur Katherine956988MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451088003321Beautiful boys2167382UNINA