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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 (...

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Main Author: Mezur, Katherine (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies.
Arts.
Asian Culture.
Gender Studies.
Organic Chemistry.
Theatre History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Chemistry, Organic.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Ethnology > Asia.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Theater > History.
Theater.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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).
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (336 pages)
ISBN:9781403979131
DOI:10.1057/9781403979131