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Katherine Mezur - Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies - 9781349529919 - V9781349529919
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Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies

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Description for Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies Paperback. 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). Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; JFC; JFSJ; PNN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
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).

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
Number of Pages
319
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349529919
SKU
V9781349529919
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Katherine Mezur
KATHERINE MEZUR is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Rhetoric and Film at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Reviews for Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies
"Mezur s Beautiful Boys is a useful reprise of English-language scholarship on the traditional Japanese female impersonator, but something new as well: a fresh look at the Kabuki theater s onnagata through the insights granted us by feminist, gender and performance theories over the past thirty years. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, Beautiful Boys shows us that rather than distilling ... Read more

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