Performing women/performing womanhood :
Bhatia, Nandi, 1963-
Performing women/performing womanhood : theatre, politics, and dissent in North India / Nandi Bhatia - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010 - xxviii, 158 pgaes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-149) and index
Constructing the theatre actress -- Argumentative women in domestic spaces -- Independence, partition, and new theatrical imaginings -- From social reform to social protest -- The courtesan as 'virangana' in contemporary historical drama -- 'A window into an elegant and colourful, but almost forgotten world.'
This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance-myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation-used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life.
0198066937 9780198066934
2010317568
Women -- India, North -- Social conditions.--------
Women in the theater--History--India--20th century
Performing women/performing womanhood : theatre, politics, and dissent in North India / Nandi Bhatia - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010 - xxviii, 158 pgaes : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-149) and index
Constructing the theatre actress -- Argumentative women in domestic spaces -- Independence, partition, and new theatrical imaginings -- From social reform to social protest -- The courtesan as 'virangana' in contemporary historical drama -- 'A window into an elegant and colourful, but almost forgotten world.'
This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance-myth, folklore, ritual, and history, including everyday conversation-used by women to intervene in and challenge the agenda of social movements, which conceptualized women's emancipation but imagined their role as being primarily at the core of family life.
0198066937 9780198066934
2010317568
Women -- India, North -- Social conditions.--------
Women in the theater--History--India--20th century