Engendering performance : Indian women performers in search of an identity /
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SAGE Publications,
2010
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Table of 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.