Title Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity / Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi.

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 303 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-296) and index.
Contents	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.
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Subject	Women in the theater -- India.
	Women in the theater.
	India.
	Dance -- Social aspects -- India.
	Dance -- Social aspects.
	Theater and society -- India.
	Theater and society.
	Women dancers -- India.
	Women dancers.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar.
Other Form:	Print version: Dutt, Bishnupriya. Engendering performance. Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; SAGE Publications, 2010 9788132104568 (DLC) 2010023245 (OCoLC)637715298
ISBN	9788132106128 (electronic book)
	8132106121 (electronic book)
	9788132104568 (print)
	8132104560 (print)