Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies devising Kabuki female-likeness - Mezur, Katherine; ebrary, Inc. (New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Female impersonators -- Japan; Kabuki; Electronic books