Performing Women: Theatre, Politics, and Dissent in North India

by Nandi Bhatia

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 normalized in the national popular consciousness.
This book recovers, excavates, and remembers the contribution of both neglected as well as known figures in theatre history from north India, in languages which include Hindi,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198066937
• ISBN13: 9780198066934
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"