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Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India / Susan Dewey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dewey, Susan.
- Series:
- Gender and globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Beauty contestants.
- Beauty contests.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Women in development--India.
- Women in development.
- Miss World Pageant.
- Beauty contests--India.
- Beauty contestants--India.
- National characteristics, East Indian.
- Ethnicity--India.
- Ethnicity.
- India--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815631767
- 0815631766
- OCLC:
- 171613957
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