01406cam a2200217   45000010005000000100015000050200015000200200018000351000026000532450107000792600048001863000048002343360021002823370025003033380023003285040066003515050315004175200343007326500058010756500055011336631  a2010317568  a0198066937  a97801980669341 aBhatia, Nandi,d1963-10aPerforming women/performing womanhood :btheatre, politics, and dissent in North India /cNandi Bhatia  aNew Delhi :bOxford University Press,c2010  axxviii, 158 pgaes :billustrations ;c23 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 136-149) and index0 aConstructing 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.'  aThis 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.  aWomen -- India, North -- Social conditions.vxyz2 0aWomen in the theaterzIndiaxHistoryy20th century