Nobody puts Rani in a corner: Making of the new Indian woman in <i>Queen</i> (2014)

Arora, Anupama

doi:10.1080/14746689.2019.1613783

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“…One of the predicaments of viewing gender relations in the global South from the lens of the global North is falling into the risk of assuming that women in the developing world are always the victims of oppression (Arora, 2019; Mount, 2020; Sanyal, 2009). Indian women negotiate power dynamics through a range of familial relations.…”

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“…We drew upon the scholarship on social movement participation of Indian women from well-to-do families. This literature details the struggles and negotiations of women activists and social workers in India (Arora, 2019;Ghosh Choudhury, 2015;Marik, 2013;Mitra, 2011;Mount, 2020;Roy, 2009Roy, , 2011Sinha Roy, 2018). However, leadership identity and identity-related agency are underexplored (Mitra, 2011;Marik, 2013;Sinha Roy, 2018), especially in the context of small towns in India (Bidner & Eswaran, 2015;Lahiri-Dutt & Sil, 2014).…”

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“…Managing In India, key to the understanding of agency is how women reflect on feminism and oppression (Arora, 2019;Mount, 2020). Therefore, before describing our leaders' coping strategies, we present their perceptions about feminism and identity tensions.…”

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Identity tensions of women with two leadership positions in India

Banerjee

Memon

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Identity narratives enhance the understanding of women's leadership, but there exist very few in-depth analyses of negative identity tensions that influence agency. In this study, we examine the negative identity tensions of well-to-do women from small towns in India, who hold two leadership positions: organizational and social movement. We borrow from the discourse on well-to-do women's participation in social movements in India to draw on the notions of identity, perceptions of feminism, and patriarchal challenge. Our data are derived from 49 in-depth interviews with women leaders. Findings from qualitative analysis and creation of a composite narrative show that negative identity tensions arising from two leadership positions are gendered in nature. Furthermore, agency is (i) contingent on one's reflection on challenges, (ii) rooted in an underlying principle, and (iii) practiced through the mechanisms of "managing femininity, " a concept that is widely discussed in the Western paradigms of postfeminism and neoliberalism. This paper contributes to the feminist dialog on the global South in the context of gender, class, and geographical location intersection by revealing certain non-Western ways of managing femininity.However, in the process, the hegemony of Indian men remains intact.

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Identity tensions of women with two leadership positions in India

Banerjee

Memon

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…The experience of cinema has changed, and so have the demands of the audience and cinephiles watching the films. Gradually, the industry has also witnessed the growing popularity of women-centric and women-created films (Gupta, 2015; Arora, 2019). Women actors, directors, producers and other technicians are no longer an exception but have become a norm in the industry.…”

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Matricentric Leadership: Vidya Balan and the Emergence of Alternative Leadership Style in Popular Hindi Cinema

Pramanik,

Mishra

2023

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Vidya Balan has developed her brand of films by strategically choosing scripts to disrupt both the cinematic perception and the practice. This article argues that the Vidya Balan brand of films has been a prototype for an understated yet alternative leadership style which breaks the stereotype of portraying strong women with machismo and manliness to project them as bold and powerful. Balan has designed a consistent celebrity brand, yet distinguishable from her contemporaries. In the process, she has developed matricentric leadership. The article attempts to understand the matricentric leadership style in the context of popular Hindi cinema and how it corresponds to the larger societal context. A content analysis of Vidya Balan’s recent choice of films, her interviews, and her off-screen presence has revealed how she has succeeded in incepting an alternative leadership style. This style, inspired by a range of working mothers we see around us in our everyday lives, enables us to develop a deeper understanding of new-age women. It also adds to our knowledge about Hindi cinema’s changing trend in depicting more realistic women regarding body, looks and ability standards.

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Being single, being ‘wrong’: pain and the remaking of gendered subjectivity in Delhi

Butcher

2022

Gender, Place & Culture

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Nobody puts Rani in a corner: Making of the new Indian woman in Queen (2014)

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Identity tensions of women with two leadership positions in India

Identity tensions of women with two leadership positions in India

Matricentric Leadership: Vidya Balan and the Emergence of Alternative Leadership Style in Popular Hindi Cinema

Being single, being ‘wrong’: pain and the remaking of gendered subjectivity in Delhi

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