Title: Making Miss India Miss World : constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India /
Authors: Dewey, Susan.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Women India Social conditions.; Women in development India.; Beauty contests India.; Beauty contestants India.; National characteristics, East Indian.; Ethnicity India; India Social conditions.
Abstract: "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.