Imag(in)ings of women, power and sexuality in the mainstream Hindi cinema

Speaker: Nishat Haider

Prof. Haider speaks on the trajectory of intersectional feminism and feminist discourse in India by tracing the shifts in the imag(in)ings of women on the grid of power and sexuality in the mainstream Hindi cinema.of the Alkazi Theatre Archives at The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi, and currently a scholar at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.

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