Author : K. Mezur
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349529919
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies by : K. Mezur
Download or read book Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies written by K. Mezur and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-08-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).