01433cam a2200229 4500 6631 2010317568 0198066937 9780198066934 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 text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 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. Women -- India, North -- Social conditions. Women in the theater India History 20th century 5581 5581 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2018-11-27 10427 0 792.09 BHA 30011385 2018-11-27 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN