TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dutt, Bishnupriya.
AU  - Munsi, Urmimala Sarkar.
TI  - Engendering performance: Indian women performers in search of an identity 
SN  - 9788132104568
AV  - PN2881.5 .D88 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi, India, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Women in the theater
KW  - India
KW  - Dance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - Women dancers
N1  - 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
ER  -