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Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies : devising Kabuki female-likeness /

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 per...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mezur, Katherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.