This document is an unedited draft on the basis of which art critic Geeta Kapur delivered an illustrated lecture at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in March 2008.

Versions of this lecture under different titles were also presented in the following venues:

- 'Gender Mobility: Through the Lens of Five Women Artists,' Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., Baroda, December 2006;
- 'Play of Self and Gender,' Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, July 2007; and
- 'Through the Lens: Gender in Performance,' India Moderna exhibition talk, IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Moderna), Valencia, February 2009

Artists mentioned in the presentation include Nalini Malani, Pushpamala N., Dayanita Singh, Tejal Shah, and Sonia Khurana.