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100			_aBhattacharya, Shrayana
245			_aDesperately seeking shah rukh : India's lonely young women and the search for intimacy and independence
260			_bHarperCollins Publishers, _c2021 _aNoida :
300			_axxii, 445 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes index.
520			_aIn this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the jobs, desires, prayers, love affairs and rivalries--of a diverse group of women. Divided by class but united in fandom, they remain steadfast in their search for intimacy, independence and fun. Embracing Hindi film idol Shah Rukh Khan allows them a small respite from an oppressive culture, a fillip to their fantasies of a friendlier masculinity in Indian men. Most struggle to find the freedom-or income-to follow their favourite actor. Bobbing along in this stream of multiple lives for more than a decade-from Manju's boredom in 'rurban' Rampur and Gold's anger at having to compete with Western women for male attention in Delhi's nightclubs, to Zahira's break from domestic abuse in Ahmedabad-Bhattacharya gleans the details on what Indian women think about men, money, movies, beauty, helplessness, agency and love. A most unusual and compelling book on the female gaze, this is the story of how women have experienced post-liberalization India.
650			_aDesperately seeking
650			_aYoung Women
650			_aIndependence
650			_aBollywood
650			_aChildcare
650			_a Domestic : duties
650			_aEconomic : liberalization
650			_aElites
650			_a Fantasies
650			_aFeminism
650			_a Home -Based : business
650			_aRomantic
650			_aMasculinity
650			_a Self - Employment
650			_a Sociopathy
650			_aSEWA
650			_aRanveer Singh
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