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Uma Chakravarti and Sadhna Arya (Ed.), Stree Adhyan: Ek Parichay, (Hindi) Vani Prakashan, 2021, 456 pp., ₹648. ISBN: 978-8194939801 ( Hardcover).

The main focus of this article is to forefront women performers as subjects in historiography. Women performers have remained on the margin of both mainstream and subaltern historiography. The article, instead of merely charting their artistic topography, tries to locate them in larger social, cultural and historical context. It tries to map their artistic aspirations and commitment to performance, their journeys and struggles, the troubled histories of their frustrations and endeavours, their strains and tensions as they travelled the varied worlds of the personal and professional. Till date class, caste and patriarchal prejudice marks the Tamasha and Nautanki women performers as vulgar and veiled 'prostitute' or 'loose' women. The article also moves beyond the paradigm of art and work binary, challenging the middle-class evocation of performance as a temple of art. Invisibilising the women performers as workers forecloses their struggles and contestations.

This article examines how contemporary feminist theatre 'disrupts' and 'disturbs' the nationalist project's hegemonic claim to respectability by reclaiming the voices of 'loose' women. It examines in particular a play, San Sattavan ka Qissa: Azizun Nisa, by Tripurari Sharma, to show how the foregrounding of the courtesan in the public-political space creates uneasy tensions in the way in which social, political and national life is organised by emerging middle-class nationalists. Moreover, by unravelling the various aspects of Azizun Nisa's publicness—as a courtesan and as a participant in the revolt of 1857—the play shows the distinctive ways in which resistance to norms is fashioned by Azizun Nisa in each case. By exploring the ways in which Azizun Nisa claims political subjectivity, the article engages with the issues that continue to animate the women's movement today. Citizenship for women, then, the article argues, traverses precarious grounds between exclusion and inclusion on terms of conformity.

'Gender in Modern India' brings together research on a range of themes, including masculinity and sexuality; social reforms, castes, and contestations; Adivasis, patriarchy, and colonialism; capitalism, political economy, and labour; health, medical care, and institution building; culture and identity; and migration and its new dynamics.

PurposeRemote work has allowed IT professionals to engage in "side hustles", which is against the law in the Indian labour market. Professionals in the IT industry are constantly being scrutinized due to the emerging "side hustling" culture, and as a result, they are frequently subjected to rude and uncivil behaviour by others. This study aims to examine the outcome of workplace incivility on the employee's job search behaviour and their silence. Along with this, it examines the intervening effect of organizational cynicism on the interrelation of workplace incivility with job search behaviour and employee silence. It further investigates the buffering role of workplace friendship in the link between workplace incivility and organizational cynicism.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, a mixed-methods approach was used, which included testing the structural model followed by a qualitative study. In Study 1, the structural model testing of time-lagged primary data from 252 respondents who worked in information technology (IT) or information technology-enabled services was done, whereas Study 2 included a qualitative analysis.FindingsThe findings disclose that workplace incivility is positively connected to job search behaviour and employee silence. Organizational cynicism significantly intervenes in the link between workplace incivility and job search behaviour, and between workplace incivility and employee silence, whereas workplace friendship functions as a moderator in the link between workplace incivility and organizational cynicism. The findings indicate that if an employee experiences incivility at work, then workplace friendship plays an active role in encouraging the cynical behaviour of targeted employees towards their organisation.Originality/valueIn the past, investigators have investigated the concept of workplace incivility; however, to the best of the authors' knowledge, its impact on job search behaviour is studied for the first time ever, whereas its impact on employee silence is studied for the first time in a moonlighting context in Indian industry. In light of the massive layoffs in India's IT industry because of employees' pursuit of side hustles, the results of this study will help firms better comprehend the negative repercussions of workplace incivility. These effects include employees' reluctance to speak up about problems at work and an increase in their frequency of actively seeking other employment.

PurposeThe present study aims to investigate the direct and indirect relationship between abusive supervision (AS) and employees' intention to quit (ITQ) and employee misconduct (EM). Though the direct relationship was investigated in past studies; however, the indirect effect of the said relationships via workplace ostracism (WO) and the interaction effect of resilience on the direct relationship based on the conservation of resource theory and social exchange theory were hardly explored.Design/methodology/approachThe data was collected through a cross-sectional survey using standardized measures. In the current study, the responses from 575 respondents were analysed using partial least squares structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe study's findings stressed that AS positively affects an employee's ITQ and EM. WO was found to be a significant mediator and resilience as a significant moderator for AS, ITQ and EM relationships.Originality/valueThe study is one of the few studies in the Indian context linking AS to ITQ and EM in the presence of WO as a mediator and resilience as a moderator.