Bollywood’s New Woman : : Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies / / ed. by Anupama Arora, Megha Anwer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Anwer, Megha,; Arora, Anupama,; Banerjee, Koel,; Biswas, Madhavi,; Chakrabarti, Baidurya,; Chakraborty, Debadatta,; De, Aparajita,; Desai, Jigna,; Dora-Laskey, Prathim-Maya,; Gehlawat, Ajay,; Ghosh, Tanushree,; Gopal, Sangita,; Ram, Anjali,; Sathe, Namrata Rele,; Sen, Puja,; Siddiqui, Gohar,; Tanvir, Kuhu,
• HerausgeberIn: Anwer, Megha,; Arora, Anupama,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I. Family and Nation --; Chapter 1. Mompreneur in the Multiplex --; Chapter 2. Lethal Acts --; Chapter 3. Beyond the Couple Form --; Chapter 4. Mera Saaya --; PART II. Body Matters --; Chapter 5. New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion --; Chapter 6. Queering Bollywood --; Chapter 7. Plus-Size Femininity --; Chapter 8. The Many Bodies of Vidya Balan --; PART III. Geographies of the New Woman --; Chapter 9. Out of India --; Chapter 10. Learning to Love The(ir) World --; Chapter 11. Single in the City --; Chapter 12. Glocal Women --; PART IV. New Media and the New Woman --; Chapter 13. All Broken Up and Dancing --; Chapter 14. Reshaping “Bollywood” --; Acknowledgments --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978814486; 9783110753790; 9783110754032; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978814486
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Anupama Arora, Megha Anwer.

Bollywood’s New Woman examines Bollywood’s construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminates the contexts and contours of this contemporary figure that has been identified in sociological and historical discourses as the “New Woman.” On the one hand, this figure is a variant of the fin de siècle phenomenon of the “New Woman” in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the Indian context, the New Woman is a distinct articulation resulting from the nation’s tryst with neoliberal reform, consolidation of the middle class, and the ascendency of aggressive Hindu Right politics.