Title: Making Miss India Miss World
Subtitle: constructing gender, power, and the nation in postliberalization India
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.
Subjects: Social conditions, Women in development, Beauty contestants, East Indian National characteristics, Miss World Pageant, Beauty contests, Ethnicity, Women, Women, social conditions, Women, india, National characteristics, east indian, India, social conditions, Miss World Pageant. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007065452, Miss World Pageant (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007065452 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n2007065452
Places: India