'Bad' Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety

1.Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha :             Introduction: Breaking BadThe Disorderly Presence at Home2.Ira Bhaskar:Desire, Deviancy and Defiance in Bombay Cinema (1937-1960)3.Shampa Roy, Saswati Sengupta: "haan, haan mein alaida hoon!" (Yes, yes I am different!): the Disorderly Bibi in Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)4.Mrinal Pande:The Goddess of Mean Things: the Mother-in-law in Hindi Films5.Anjali Yadav, Anusha Choudhary, Divya Gupta, Ifsha Zehra, Neha Jaji Varghese, Prachi Khari, Shaifali Singh, Soumya Sharma, Tooba Towfiq, Violina Barman:"ek admi tha, usne shadi karli!" ("There was a man who got married!"): Female Agency and Domestication in Omkara (2006)
The Business of the Body6.Deepika TandonThe Politics of Sanitisation / Sanskritisation: the Court Dancers and Classical Pasts (Rajnartaki, 1941; Chitralekha, 1964; Amrapali, 1966)7.Ruth Vanita:Goddess, Saint and Journeying Soul: Courtesans and Religion in Bombay Cinema (1939-2015)8.Sameera Mehta:The Prison-House of Performance: the Figure of the Dancing Girl in Bombay Films of the1960s9.Neha Yadav:Guns, Gangsters and "Gandagi": the Moll in Hindi Cinema10.Rakesh Shukla:Sex Workers in Hindi Cinema: Imagos and RealitiesThe Question of Violence11.Smita Banerjee: The Caged Woman: Female Guilt, Desire and Transgression in Bandini (1963)12.Menka Ahlawat:"itni bhhi mahaan main nahi hoon, raja!" ("I'm not that great, O king"): the Angry Young Woman of the 1970s13.Neha Dixit:Outcast[e] / Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)14.Isha Purkayastha: The Female Atankvadi: Gender, Militancy and the Politics of Representation in the late 90s.15.Nonica Datta: Honoured Mother and 'Honour' Killing: Ammaji in NH10 (2015)
The Advent  of the New Woman16.Nupur Mittal:Of Pallus and Pants: Fabricating the New Woman of the New Nation Andaz (1949), Mr. and Mrs. 55 (1955), Shri 420  (1955)17.Megha Anwer: Consumer Pleasures and Hindi Cinema's En-gendered Distribution of Moral Capital in Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)18.Puja Sen: Twenty-first century Heroines: Modernity in Cocktail (2012), Queen (2014) and Highway (2014)19.Abhija Ghosh:Curiosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018). 

The Screening of the Actress
20.Shikha Kothiyal:"naye naam nit naye roop dhar" (Don new names and new forms daily): the Figure of the Actress in Hindi Cinema21.An Interview with Swara Bhaskar: Playing Anaarkali: Gender, Morality and Erotica.