TY - BOOK AU - Dutt, Bishnupriya TI - Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity SN - 9788132104568 U1 - R40 PY - 2010/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Section I: The Story of the Actress Chapter 1 Actresses of the Colonial Space: English Actresses in India (1789-1842) Chapter 2 Locating a New Space and Identity: Coming of the Indian Actresses (1872-1910) Chapter 3 The People`s Actress: A Journey to Modernity Chapter 4 Actresses in the Jatra Space Section II: Of The Woman Dancer Chapter 5 Natyasastra: Emerging (Gender) Codes and the Woman Dancer Chapter 6 The Body and the Woman Dancer: What She is, or What She is Expected to be Chapter 7 Emergence of the Contemporary Woman Dancer:Contribution of Tagore, Shankar and IPTA Chapter 8 Tale of the Professional Woman Dancer in Folk Traditions in India: Commodification of Dance and the Traditional Dancing Women ER -