Beauty Queens and Hindu Militants: Indian Women’s Negotiation with Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalism

Through a review of the 2012 documentary film The World before Her directed by Nisha Pahuja, this article provides a critical reflection on how neoliberal governmentality appropriates women’s bodies and subjectivities in two women’s boot camps in India: the Miss India contest and the Hindu militant...

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Main Authors: Nazia Hussein, Saba Hussain
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Warwick 2016-04-01
Series:Exchanges
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Online Access:https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/article/view/136