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Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India (Gender and Globalization)
Susan Dewey
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Description for Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India (Gender and Globalization)
Hardcover. 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. Series: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFCA; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 cultural developments.Dewey offers readers an up-close view of the beauty pageant through her discussion of the contestants' intense training program, ... Read more
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 cultural developments.Dewey offers readers an up-close view of the beauty pageant through her discussion of the contestants' intense training program, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender and Globalization
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631767
SKU
V9780815631767
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About Susan Dewey
Susan Dewey is a cultural anthropologist specializing in macroeconomic policy and Indian culture, particularly women's culture. She is the author of Invisible Agents, Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia, and India and of articles in the Journal of Ethnography and Education Quarterly and the Journal of South Asian Popular Culture.
Reviews for Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India (Gender and Globalization)
Dewey presents a complex portrait of what it means to both negotiate and perform ‘Miss India.’ Her sections on the young women who are the pageant contestants is fascinating, as is her description of the training program designed to turn otherwise ordinary young women into symbols of Indian beauty and femininity. . . . A captivating glimpse into the unique ... Read more