Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India by Susan Dewey

Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power, and the Nation in Postliberalization India

Susan Dewey

245 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective medium-paced

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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 standar...

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