@article{436507,
      recid = {436507},
      author = {Vollmann, William T.},
      title = {Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity  in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses  (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, Kabuki  goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists,  geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines /},
      publisher = {Ecco,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxi, 504 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      note = {Reprint. Originally published: c2010.},
      abstract = {"What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a  performance? Writing with the extra-ordinary awareness and  endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre,  William T. Vollmann takes an in-depth look at the Japanese  craft of Noh theater, using the medium as a prism to reveal  the conception of beauty itself." "Kissing the Mask  explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the  traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture  for centuries."--[book cover]},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436507},
}