TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bhatia,Nandi
TI  - Performing women/performing womanhood: theatre, politics, and dissent in North India 
SN  - 0198066937
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Women -- India, North -- Social conditions
KW  - Women in the theater
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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.'
N2  - 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
ER  -