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Performing women/performing womanhood [electronic resource] : theatre, politics, and dissent in North India /

by Bhatia, Nandi.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 158 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199080076 (ebook) :.Other title: Performing women, performing womanhood.Subject(s): Women in the theater -- India, North | Women -- India, North -- Social conditionsOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 'Performing Women' brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity and engaged in dramatic enactments that contested middle-class codes of female propriety, which became normalised in the national popular consciousness.
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'Performing Women' brings visibility to the work of women who performed on the borderlines of dominant theatrical activity and engaged in dramatic enactments that contested middle-class codes of female propriety, which became normalised in the national popular consciousness.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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