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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 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing over time the conventional standard for female beauty. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey's Making Miss India Miss World examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Gender and globalization

Uniform Title

Gender and globalization

Subject

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.

ISBN

9780815631767
0815631766

LCCN

2007037079

OCLC

ocn171613957
171613957
SCSB-14696935

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library