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Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India

Title
Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India / Susan Dewey.
Author
Dewey, Susan.
Publication
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.

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Description
xii, 245 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Gender and globalization
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index.
Contents
Beauty as cultural performance -- Women of substance? situating self under the gaze -- Watching Miss World -- Strī śakti and the rhetoric of women's empowerment -- Structural adjustment and "international standards" -- Miss India and national identity -- Conclusion: Miss India in the postliberalization candy store.
Call Number
JFE 08-5466
ISBN
  • 9780815631767 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0815631766 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007037079
OCLC
171613957
Author
Dewey, Susan.
Title
Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India / Susan Dewey.
Imprint
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Gender and globalization
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-5466
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