Kumkum Sangari,William F. Vilas Research Professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; has published extensively on literary and critical theory, nationalism, feminism, Bombay cinema, media and feminist art practice: author of Solid:Liquid: a (trans)national reproductive formation and Politics of the Possible: Essays on gender, history, narratives, colonial English; editor of Trace Retrace: Paintings, Nilima Sheikh; and co-editor of Women and Culture, Recasting Women: Essays in colonial history and From Myths to Markets: Essays on gender.