Download or read book Beautiful Boys/Outlaw Bodies written by K. Mezur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-04 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).