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020 _a0198066937
020 _a9780198066934
100 1 _aBhatia, Nandi,
_d1963-
245 1 0 _aPerforming women/performing womanhood :
_btheatre, politics, and dissent in North India /
_cNandi Bhatia
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2010
300 _axxviii, 158 pgaes :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
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.
650 _aWomen -- India, North -- Social conditions.
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650 0 _aWomen in the theater
_zIndia
_xHistory
_y20th century
999 _c5581
_d5581