Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies: Devising Kabuki Female-Likeness

by Katherine Mezur

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).

Genres: Nonfiction, Japan

332 pages, Hardcover

First published November 5, 2005