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Gender and performance

Masquerading womanliness: The Onnagata's theatrical performance of femininity in kabuki

Yoko Takakuwa Currently researching a theory of gendered subjectivity in the English Renaissance and Japanese theatre, Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff
Pages 151-161 | Published online: 19 Jun 2008

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