Making Miss India Miss World
Subtitle: constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India
By: Susan Dewey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Gender and globalization
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780815631767
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social conditions; Women in development -- India; Beauty contests -- India; Beauty contestants -- India; National characteristics, East Indian; Ethnicity -- India; India -- Social conditions
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beauty as cultural performance; title: Women of substance? situating self under the gaze; title: Watching Miss World; title: Strī śakti and the rhetoric of women's empowerment; title: Structural adjustment and "international standards"; title: Miss India and national identity; title: Conclusion: Miss India in the postliberalization candy store.