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Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India - Gender and Globalization
Susan Dewey
Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India - Gender and Globalization
Susan Dewey
Miss India competition has become a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. Through the lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, the author examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by political, economic, and cultural developments.
280 pages, 16 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 1, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780815631767 |
Publishers | Syracuse University Press |
Pages | 260 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 503 g |