Engendering performance: Indian women performers in search of an identity/
Bishnupriya Dutt; Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
- SAGE, 2010.
Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I: The Story of the Actress; 1 -- Actresses of the Colonial Space; 2 -- Locating a New Space and Identity; 3 -- The People's Actress; 4 -- Actresses in the Jatra Space; Section II: Of the Women Dancer; 5 -- Natyasastra; 6 -- The Body and the Woman Dancer; 7 -- Emergence of the Contemporary Woman Dancer; 8 -- Tale of the Professional Woman Dancer in Folk Traditions in India; Conclusion: In Conversation with Samik Bandyopadhyay; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors.