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Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India

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Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India - Dewey, Susan
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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. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country's borders. 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 ...

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Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India 2008, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

ISBN-13: 9780815631767

Hardcover