... (1999) notion of gender performativity, since these public performances and spectacles, whether to a live audience or via billboards and advertisements, provide a platform for the production and reproduction of gendered expectations of leadership and the reiteration of gendered sources of leadership authority. Mayawati and Uma Bharti Kanshi Ram believed that political power was the key to usher in social change without ... was growing, and she was respected for her image as an accomplished actress. Her roles emphasized a great deal on the chastity of the woman, and even if her character ...

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• Approx Pages: 32
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi ... is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fiction...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a group of Parsis who live in a ramshackle Bombay apartment block. While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. This complex tale of corruption during Indira Gandhi's years in office returns once more to the Bombay Parsi ... is, in fact, an admirable balance in Mistry's Bombay, which brings us back to my earlier proposition: that Mistry's writing in its development of the time-honored fiction...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate