Bollywood's New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies

Book Overview

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 si cle 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978814453
• ISBN13: 9781978814455
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher