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| 020 | _a9780198066934 | ||
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_aBhatia, Nandi, _d1963- |
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_aPerforming women/performing womanhood : _btheatre, politics, and dissent in North India / _cNandi Bhatia |
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_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2010 |
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_axxviii, 158 pgaes : _billustrations ; _c23 cm |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 136-149) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | _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.' | |
| 520 | _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. | ||
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_aWomen -- India, North -- Social conditions. _v _x _y _z _2 |
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_aWomen in the theater _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century |
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