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Recent feminist scholarship on the social and cultural construction of gender and equity enables us to assess the implications worldwide of historically persistent male dominance in dance production.1 In India a key understanding of the reality of women’s subordinate status comes from the traditional and mythical portrayals of women (Ghadially, 1988), some of which are restated in dance.2
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Hanna, J.L. (1993). Classical Indian Dance and Women’s Status. In: Thomas, H. (eds) Dance, Gender and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22747-1_8
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