Bibliography on Women, Families, and
Gender Roles in Indian Media
Compiled by Ann Grodzins Gold from RISA-L discussions.
Babb, Lawrence A. and Susan S. Wadley, eds. 1995. Media and the Transformation of
Religion in South Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bhattacharya, Rinki 1985. "Portrayals of Women in Indian Cinema." In Indian
Films Today: An Anthology of Articles on Indian Cinema. New Delhi: Tenth
International Film Festival of India.
Chakravarty, Sumita S. 1993. National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema: 1947-1987.
Austin: University of Texas Press. [see chapter on "women and the burden of
postcoloniality -- courtesan genre]
Derne, Steve 1995 "Cultural Arenas that Celebrate the Individual" from his Culture
in Action, 94-103. Albany: SUNY.
Dickey, Sara. 1995. "Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu." In Consuming
Modernity, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge, 131-156. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press.
Dissanayake, W. 1993. "The Concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama:
An evolving dialectic." In Melodrama and Asian Cinema. Edited by W.
Dissanayake, pp. 189-204. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ghadially, Rehana, ed. 1988 Women in Indian Society. New Delhi ; Newbury Park,
Calif.: Sage Publications. [contains 2 essays on films and 1 on television]
Gokulsing, K. Moti, and Wimal Dissanayake. 1998. Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative
of Cultural Change. Staffordshire, England: Trentham Books. See Chapter 5 "Women
in Indian Cinema" pp. 75-90.
Gopalan, Lalitha. 1997. "Coitus Interruptus and Love Story in Indian Cinema."
In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, ed. Vidya Dehejia,
124-139. Delhi: Kali for Women.
Jacod, Preminda. 1997. "From Co-Star to Deity: Popular Representations of
Jayalalitha Jayaram." In Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art,
ed. Vidya Dehejia, 140-165. Delhi: Kali for Women.
Kumar, K. N. 1995. "Women in Indian Cinema: Marginalised and Exploited."
In Indian Cinema: Ebbs and Tides, pp. 33-51. New Delhi: Har-Anand
Publications.
Monteiro, Anjali. 1998. "Official Television and unofficial fabrications of the
self: The Spectator as Subject." In The Secret Politics of Our Desires:
Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema, ed. Ashis Nandy, pp. 157-207.
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Rao, Maithili. 1995. "To Be a Woman." In Frames of Mind:
Reflections on Indian Cinema, ed. by Aruna Vasudev, 241-256. New Delhi: UBS
Publishers.
Roy, Parama. 1998. "Figuring Mother India: The Case of Nargis." In Indian
Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari. 1993. "The Name of the Husband: Testimony and Taboo in
the Wife's Discourse." In Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture and
Postcolonialism, 83-102. London: Routledge.
Thomas, Rosie 1995. "Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi
Film." In Consuming Modernity, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge, 157-182.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Zutshi, Somnath 1993 "Women, Nation and the Outsider in Contemporary Hindi
Cinema." In Interrogating Modernity, ed. Tejaswini Niranjana, P. Sudhir,
Vivek Dhareshwar. Calcutta : Seagull.
Revised: March 21, 2009
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