'Bad' Women of Bombay Films Studies in Desire and Anxiety
This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastiseme
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ited by Saswati Sengupta · Shampa Roy · Sharmila Purkayastha
‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films
Saswati Sengupta • Shampa Roy Sharmila Purkayastha Editors
‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films Studies in Desire and Anxiety
Editors Saswati Sengupta Department of English Miranda House, Delhi University Delhi, India
Shampa Roy Department of English Miranda House, Delhi University Delhi, India
Sharmila Purkayastha Department of English Miranda House, Delhi University Delhi, India
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to all those of the English Department of Miranda House who taught us about collective endeavour and especially in this instance Masooma Ali (1941–2015) and Zakia Pathak (1931–2018)
Acknowledgements
Bad Women began more than three years ago on a hot summer afternoon in Miranda House. Teaching was over for the semester but (dreaded) administrative work remained. We realized while tabulating points for fresh recruits—according to the new system under the University Grants Commission—that our brightest graduates needed publications to make their mark. The idea of a Miranda House book with a mix of established and young scholars began to take shape. Why not a book, we thought, that maps the history of desire and anxiety underlying the cinematic representation of the modern “Indian” woman? Hindi films arguably comprise one of the most powerful cultural narratives of contemporary Indi
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