Dutt, Bishnupriya.
Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; SAGE Publications, 2010. - xx, 305 p.,[16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people's actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.
9788132104568 (hbk.) 8132104560
2010023245
GBB053597 bnb
015536145 Uk
Women in the theater--India.
Dance--Social aspects--India.
Theater and society--India.
Women dancers--India.
792.028082 / DUE
Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi. - New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; SAGE Publications, 2010. - xx, 305 p.,[16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Actresses of the colonial space: English actresses in India (1789-1842) -- Locating a new space and identity: coming of the Indian actresses (1872-1910) -- The people's actress: a journey to modernity -- Actresses in the jatra space -- Natyasastra: emerging (gender) codes and the woman dancer -- The body and the woman dancer: what she is, or what she is expected to be -- Emergence of the contemporary woman dancer: contribution of Tagore, Shankar, and Ipta -- Tale of the professional woman dancer in folk traditions in India: commodification of dance and the traditional dancing women.
9788132104568 (hbk.) 8132104560
2010023245
GBB053597 bnb
015536145 Uk
Women in the theater--India.
Dance--Social aspects--India.
Theater and society--India.
Women dancers--India.
792.028082 / DUE