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Kabuki is well known for its exaggerated acting, flamboyant costumes and makeup, and unnatural storylines. The onnagata, usually male actors who perform the roles of women, have been an important aspect of kabuki since its beginnings in the 17th century. In a "labyrinth" of gendering, the practice of men playing women's roles has affected the manifestations of femininity in Japanese society. In this case study of how gender has been defined and redefined through the centuries, Maki Isaka examines how the onnagata's theatrical gender "impersonation" has shaped the concept and mechanisms of femininity and gender construction in Japan. The implications of the study go well beyond disciplinary and geographic cloisters.

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Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book's contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literature.

Transvestism. --- Transvestites. --- Female impersonators. --- Crossdressers --- Femmiphilliacs --- Transvestites --- Persons --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Actors --- Transvestism --- Crossdressing --- Eonism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Paraphilias --- Drag queens. --- Drag performance. --- Cross-dressing --- Cross-dressers --- Drag kinging (Performing arts) --- Drag queening (Performing arts) --- Performing arts --- Entertainers

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Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries-village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative-to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

Brahmans --- Female impersonators --- Gender identity in dance --- Kuchipudi (Dance) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Dance --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Persons --- Brahmins --- Caste --- Ethnology --- Hindus --- Kuchipudi Bharatam --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- brahmin to non brahmin. --- female characters. --- gender performance. --- hindu religious narratives. --- impersonation. --- kuchipudi village. --- localized village performance. --- male body. --- masculinity. --- men. --- practice of impersonation. --- smarta brahmin. --- south india. --- stage. --- stri vesham. --- telugu. --- transnational indian dance form. --- village to urban.

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film --- Film --- Acting --- Female impersonators. --- Feminism and theater. --- Impersonation. --- Male impersonators. --- Sex role in literature. --- Theater and society. --- Theater --- Transvestism. --- Casting. --- 792 --- 82-2 --- Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Toneel. Drama --- 82-2 Toneel. Drama --- 792 Theater. Theaterwetenschap. Toneel --- Female impersonators --- Feminism and theater --- Impersonation --- Male impersonators --- Sex role in literature --- Theater and society --- Transvestism --- Crossdressing --- Eonism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Casting (Performing arts) --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Cross-dressers (Male impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Male impersonators) --- Drag kings --- Impersonators, Male --- Impersonators of men --- Kings, Drag --- Actresses --- Comedy --- Imitation --- Theater and feminism --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Casting --- Production and direction --- Social status --- Social aspects --- 82-2 Drama. Plays --- Drama. Plays --- 792 Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Theatre. Stagecraft. Dramatic performances --- Paraphilias --- Persons

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English literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Clothing and dress in literature --- English drama --- Female impersonators --- Literature and society --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Theater and society --- Women in literature --- Vêtements dans la littérature --- Théâtre anglais --- Littérature et société --- Masculinité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Théâtre et société --- Femmes dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- 820-2 "15/16" --- Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15/16" --- 820-2 "15/16" Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15/16" --- Masculinity in literature. --- Vêtements dans la littérature --- Théâtre anglais --- Littérature et société --- Masculinité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Théâtre et société --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Masculinity in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Drag queens --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Queens, Drag --- Costume in literature --- Social status --- Social aspects --- Persons