Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies - Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)

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 periods in Japan (the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries). In particular, the work focuses on undoing of binary genders, the sensual ambiguity of boy-ness, youth, and female-likeness and the cultural development of the aesthetics of eroticism, nostalgia, and cruelty based in female-like transformative gender acts. The work is also a visual cultures study as it draws not only on literary sources but also prints, photographs, film, and video documentation.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	2005
Authors:	K. Mezur
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	319
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6712-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-6712-1
Barcode:	9781403967121

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