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Knowledge Born through (In)Justice: Gender Testing, Imposed Humiliation, and Epistemic Interventions in the Indian Hindi Film Rashmi Rocket

Goutam Karmakar
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Published online: 27 Dec 2023

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Filmography

  • Khurana, Akarsh, dir. 2021. Rashmi Rocket. Mumbai, India: RSVP Movies and Mango People Media Network; color, 129 mins.; in Hindi.

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