{"id":98,"date":"2011-03-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=98"},"modified":"2011-08-04T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:38:51","slug":"violating-performance-women-law-and-the-state-of-exception","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/violating-performance-women-law-and-the-state-of-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"Violating Performance: Women, Law and the State of Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100\" title=\"mitra\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitra1.jpg\" alt=\"Violating Performance lecture image\" width=\"590\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitra1.webp 590w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mitra1-300x284.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 1980s was a uniquely decisive decade for feminist politics in India. Defining, delineating and legislating to prevent crimes against women became a logical and immediate goal for the women\u2019s movement. In this lecture Shayoni Mitra looks at two women\u2019s ensembles in Delhi\u2014Theatre Union and Buland Natya Manch\u2014and how they aided and enlarged the concerns of the women\u2019s movement, specifically by engaging in legislative discourse. These plays on sati and dowry then serve as prime examples of what Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak calls \u201cenabling violation,\u201d or a deliberate strategy whereby the twin identities of women as victims and citizens are called into question through an exploration of the violences enacted against them.<\/p>\n<p>Shayoni Mitra, Assistant Professor of Theatre at Barnard College, received her B.A and M.A in English from St. Stephen\u2019s College, Delhi University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University. She teaches courses on traditional Indian performance, modern Asian theatre, political performance and theatre history. Professor Mitra is also an actor. She has conducted workshops on theatre for social change and has performed with Jana Natya Manch, a street theatre group in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1980s was a uniquely decisive decade for feminist politics in India. Defining, delineating and legislating to prevent crimes against women became a logical and immediate goal for the women\u2019s movement. In this lecture Shayoni Mitra looks at two women\u2019s ensembles in Delhi\u2014Theatre Union and Buland Natya Manch\u2014and how they aided and enlarged the concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":99,"template":"","tags":[71,9,39,141,28],"class_list":["post-98","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arts","tag-performance","tag-politics","tag-transnational","tag-violence"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/98\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}